White Powder, Sparking Hazmat Response, Was 'Meant to Disrupt'
A Holliston business was quarantined after finding suspicious white powder.
State hazmat units responded to a report of an unknown white powder found in an envelope at the Ashland Police station last week. That envelope came from a Holliston Business, Nordost, which received the powder in the mail, according to Holliston's Fire Chief, Michael Cassidy. Nordost, along with the Ashland Police station, was quarantined for several hours while hazmat crews set up a field laboratory to determine the composition of the powder, which was later determined to be harmless. "The business had about 15 people in it and they were able to keep working," Cassidy said. Police protocols, adopted after the anthrax scares of 2001, state that the locations of suspicious materials must be isolated. The envelope was sent to its …
