LANSING, (Mich.) WLNS -- A false alarm went out Saturday morning for a chemical leak in Webberville that didn't really happen.

Just before 11 a.m., an announcement could be heard over the police scanner, talking about a chemical leak in Webberville, which soon escalated to a 3-mile-wide evacuation. However, the chemical leak was never real. It was just a training exercise.

One announcement that went over public air waves stated the following:

"We got a report of a known chemical leak in an abandoned warehouse in the city of... or the village of Webberville."

Anyone in Mid-Michigan listening to the scanner around 11 a.m. Saturday would have heard this warning of a chemical leak, but Don Drent, Deputy Chief of the Northeast Ingham Emergency Service Authority, said the training wasn't sup

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