Crews have safely disposed of hazardous materials that were found in a Calgary industrial area earlier this week.

The city’s Emergency Operations Centre was activated on Tuesday evening after a business in the Manchester Industrial Area received a suspicious package around noon and called police.

Police say the package contained the chemical picric acid and was supposed to be disposed of by a local moving company, but was mislabelled and had been sitting for more than a week when it was discovered. Picric acid becomes highly unstable and flammable when it is dried, according to officials.

Due to the elevated hazard of moving the chemicals, the CPS Tactical Unit was forced to move forward with detonations at the site where the package was found as a way to safely get rid of it.

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