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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska State Troopers say residents were evacuated from about 50 homes in a small town after authorities found 550 pounds of explosives in an abandoned station wagon.
Troopers spokeswoman Beth Ipsen said the agency was alerted Friday to the ammonium nitrate and nitroglycerine explosives by a property owner who apparently wanted to get rid of the material. The explosives were up to 20 years old and unstable.
A team from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Saturday detonated the explosives. No one was injured.
Residents then were allowed to return to their homes near Trapper Creek, which is about 80 miles north of Anchorage.
Ipsen says the unidentified property owner wasn’t charged with a crime.
