About 60 people were forced out into the frosty morning air about 9 a.m. when an employee spotted what he thought was a pipe bomb behind 435 Maxwell Frye Road in Millersville.
Employees weren't allowed back in the building for about 50 minutes. And by then, most had already driven off after bosses told them they could take a two-hour break.
"You don't take any chances," said Richard Dixon, the county's utility administrator for technical support. He said staffers were allowed to leave because fire...
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