Bomb Squad Called In To Clear Out Volatile Chemicals Stumbled Into By Bank Reps In Vacant Home Recently Foreclosed On

In Montgomery County, Ohio, the Dayton Daily News reports:

• The Dayton Bomb Squad has removed two chemicals from a vacant home on Evansville Avenue [Wednesday] afternoon and is trucking them out to be destroyed. At 4:40 p.m., two canisters containing potassium chlorate and aluminum powder were loaded onto a Harrison Twp. dump truck full of sand, which will be driven to a range on Gettysburg Avenue the squad uses to dispose of hazardous chemicals and ordnance. The chemicals were discovered about 1:18 p.m. in a back room of the home [...] by bank representatives who were at the property following a bank foreclosure, Montgomery County sheriff’s Maj. Scott Landis said Wednesday, June 17.

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