BOSTON (WHDH) - Authorities responded to a Boston polling location Tuesday after receiving a report of an envelope containing an unknown substance.
Officers responded at 4:37 p.m. to 735 Shawmut Ave. in Roxbury after the absentee ballot was discovered, according to fire officials.
A hazmat team that was called to the scene has since given an “all clear” after the substance was found to baking soda.
#BPDUpdate: Polling location at 735 Shawmut Ave in Roxbury has been reopened. HAZMAT Unit has given the all clear and the found substance appears to be innocuous and not suspicious in nature.
— Boston Police Dept. (@bostonpolice) November 6, 2018
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