UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash.
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The University Place police and fire department headquarters were evacuated after what appeared to be a hand grenade was dropped off at the front desk Thursday afternoon.
Assistant Fire Chief Dave Dupille said a woman was cleaning out some storage boxes when she found the World War II style grenade.
Dupille says the woman put the grenade in a plastic bag, took it to the front desk at the police station and told volunteers working the front desk, "there's a bomb in here."
University Place police Chief Rick Wilder says the grenade appears to be a mock up, and is not military.
The Pierce county sheriff's department bomb squad has been called in to dispose of the grenade as a precaution.
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