Alyssa Campbell was breastfeeding her six-week-old baby at around midnight on Tuesday when she heard a knock on her door.

It was a police officer.

He told Campbell the family had to evacuate since there were highly explosive materials in a volatile condition near her house.

“I start to panic,” Campbell, who lives on 1 Street between 46 and 50 Avenue in the southwest community of Manchester, where a truck was found to have contained picric acid, which, when dried, is highly explosive.

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The entire neighbourhood was eventually placed under lockdown, which was lifted two days later, on Thursday, after the materials were transported to a safe location, where controlled detonations of the chemical continued to take place.

“I had to

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