WNEU evacuation turns out to be a false alarm

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By Hugh Zeitlin - email

SPRINGFIELD, MA (WSHM) -

It appears that an evacuation at a pharmacology school turned out to be nothing.

Friday around 10:30 p.m., an evacuation was ordered at the school located at Western New England University.

Dennis Leger, aide to Fire Commissioner Joseph Conant, said there were no students in the building and the security guards thought they smelled ammonia.

Leger said the fire department is treating the incident as a good intent call and nothing turned up from their investigation.

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