Originally published on Country 94
A suspicious package prompted a Hazmat call at the Canada Post facility on Rothesay Avenue on Monday evening.
Platoon Chief Brian Wilson with the Saint John Fire Department said the call came in as a “white powder incident.”
“Canada Post workers had discovered that there was a box in their shipping area that required looking at,” Wilson said in a phone interview Tuesday morning.
Staff segregated the package and were evacuated to another part of the building, he said.
Wilson said Hazmat crews were sent into the building and retrieved two packages.
“They brought them out to the parking lot where we did some testing on them, opened them up and discovered that it was a harmless substance,” he said.
“It was packing material that they had used in packaging the item that was in the box, it was obvious to us.”
Wilson said it is routine for the Hazmat unit to be called whenever there is something Canada Post employees are unable to identify.
“That’s their procedure,” he said. “Obviously if it’s something suspicious in nature or they don’t know what the white powder is, they call us and leave it to us to handle.”
