Authorities in Custer County respond to a suspicious package left near propane tanks at a Lowe’s Market
WESTCLIFFE, Colo. (KKTV) - The Pueblo Metro Bomb Squad was called to a small Colorado town on Thursday after a suspicious package was discovered near propane tanks.
Custer County Emergency Management reported the information publicly just before 11 a.m. Someone at the Lowe’s Market in Westcliffe had noticed a package sitting next to the propane tanks at the grocery store.
“This employee started to move the package and then decided that may be a bad idea and contacted the sheriff’s office,” someone with Custer County Emergency Management wrote on a social media post.
After a deputy and the fire department responded to the scene, they decided to bring in the bomb squad from Pueblo.
The area was clear at about 1:45 p.m. after the bomb squad removed the suspicious package from the scene.
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