Occupants were allowed back into the building shortly after 5 p.m., and the fire trucks left. Cambridge bomb technicians did not inspect the building.
At 5:25 p.m., a second bomb threat was phoned in to CPD headquarters.
Wrinn said HUPD units determined at the same time that the pungent odor was not a cleaning solvent but was coming from the granular material itself.
Less than half an hour later after being allowed back into the building, occupants were evacuated a second time.
Although the smell had been around for a while--a secretary reported smelling it around 4 p.m.--witnesses said it grew much stronger just before the second evacuation.
"My eyes started to tear," said Jeffrey E. DiIuglio, an instructor who was teaching his English as a Second Language course at the time.
He said occupants were allowed back into the building after the initial evacuation, but when they got to the third floor classroom, an odor overwhelmed the class.
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