A business district in Kent, Wash. was evacuated Monday morning after a suspicious bag was discovered on a Metro bus.
Police, two SWAT teams and a bomb squad arrived on scene and immediately began removing passengers after receiving a call around 7 a.m.
After closing down the surrounding streets, police spent three hours reaching the bag, at one point using two armored vehicles to surround the bus.
Keith Eldrige, a reporter with Komo 4 News, noticed the situation’s abnormality from the beginning.
Only moments after discovering the bag, officers shut down all surrounding air space, barring news helicopters and aircraft from flying near the scene. Incredibly, after a bomb robot shot through the device, police determined the pipe bomb was a fake used during a training exercise the prior week.