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Pentagon evacuated over false-alarm ‘air quality issue’ with hazmat team deployed

By Brady Knox
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Several floors of the Pentagon were evacuated over an “air quality issue” that necessitated the deployment of a hazmat team, which was determined to be a false alarm.

Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced at around 1:30 p.m. that subsequent testing “confirmed no hazard exists, and normal operations have resumed.”

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