Some Mansfield residents are back home on Tuesday morning after an explosive scare that cleared the neighborhood.
Just after 5 p.m. on Monday, a Mansfield dad called police. His teenage son was mixing chemicals to build an explosive, he told them.
State police went to the Hanks Hill Road home, where they found "various suspicious chemical mixtures," according to a statement from state police.
That mixture, police said, contained “possibly volatile explosives,” so they called the bomb squad.
At around 8:30 p.m., troopers evacuated all the residences on Hank Hill Road. Officials were prepared to set up shelter at the Mansfield Community Center until the chemicals could be removed from the property and safely disposed of, but everyone found places to wait as police investigated.
"We saw some policemen with flashlights going around looking on the ground. We didn't know what was going on,” Pat McHugh, one of the neighbors said.
There was an explosion in the area yesterday, neighbors said. They heard another explosion last week and more last fall, they said.
"We thought it had something to do with the utility lines, you know, the electricity or the transformer,” McHugh said. “I guess not."
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The family and the juvenile are cooperating, police said. No arrests have been announced.
