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Edmonds, Washington — Traffic in Edmonds was detoured for more than an hour 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.”

I’ll bet the first fireman on the scene knew what it was that was “threatening” the good citizens of Edmonds. Most fire dept personnel are decent cooks and bakers.

Thanks, Ursarodinia