Crows fighting over bag of flour led to white powder hazmat scare

Traffic in Edmonds, Seattle, was detoured for more than an hour on Tuesday while a hazardous materials team investigated a report of a suspicious powder discovered at the intersection of Sunset Avenue and Edmonds Street.



"It turns out the white powdery substance is, in fact, flour," Snohomish County Fire District 1 spokeswoman Leslie Hynes said.

A witness told firefighters that a couple of crows were to blame. The woman was going out for a jog when she noticed the black birds dragging around the bag of white flour.



"She took it away from them, put it in a garbage can and kept running," Hynes said. "Two crows and a two-alarm hazmat incident."