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Crews Clean Up After Hazmat Team Finds Chemicals in Manayunk Apartment

Investigators determined it was not an active lab, the chemicals were not exposed and there was no danger to the public.

Crews are cleaning up after Philadelphia's hazmat team found chemicals inside a Manayunk apartment Tuesday night.

Hazmat crews, the bomb squad and Homeland Security were called to an apartment on the 200 block of Roxborough Avenue around 7 p.m. for a report of a possible drug lab. When they arrived they found an apartment with chemicals inside but no resident.

Investigators determined it was not an active lab, the chemicals were not exposed and there was no danger to the public. Hazmat crews are currently cleaning up the area and officials are waiting to speak with the person who lives inside.

No arrests have been made.

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