A fire department spokeswoman says blame the crows for a “suspicious powder” scare at Washington state intersection that detoured traffic for more than an hour.

Snohomish County Fire District 1 spokeswoman Leslie Hynes tells The Daily Herald that a hazardous materials team responded to a report about an unknown white powder in the roadway in the town of Edmonds.

A witness finally told the crew that a couple of crows were to blame. Hynes says a woman was going jogging when she noticed the birds dragging a bag of white flour.

Hynes says the woman took the bag away from the birds, conscientiously put it in a garbage can and kept running. It took firefighters about an hour to clear the scene.

Says Hynes: “Those two crows caused a two-alarm hazmat incident.”

Source: The Daily Herald, http://www.heraldnet.com