Concrete Curing Creates Concern at Corrections Complex

There was an unusual Haz-Mat call in front of the corrections offices at the Snohomish County Jail in downtown Everett early this afternoon. Someone reported a cooler with suspicious tubes inside sitting just outside of the corrections office at the Jail near Pacific and Oakes. Everett Police and Fire Personnel along with a Haz-Mat team responded and after carefully examining the contents of the cooler determined that some construction personnel had put different mixes of concrete in the tubes and then put the tubes in the cooler to test how fast each mixture would cure. What the concrete crews didn’t do however is put any kind of identifiable labeling on the cooler or the tubes. Oh, and they also hand wrote in black marker “do not disturb” and then left it all right in front of the jail. Police and Fire crews say they don’t think that will happen again.