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WEBVTT OUR SANIKA DANGE SPOKEEXCLUSIVELY WITH THE WOMAN ABOUTWHAT HAPPENED.SANIKA: SHE WAS A LITTLE SHAKENUP AFTER THE INCIDENT AND SHEASKED US TO NOT REVEAL HER NAME,BUT SHE DID TELL US THIS WAS ANAMAZING STORY, ONE THAT PROVESTO HER THAT HER HUSBAND IS STILLAROUND.>> MY HUSBAND DIED A YEAR AGOTODAY, AND THEY HAD A MASS FORHIM.SANIKA: IT ALL STARTED AT MONDAYMORNING MASS WHEN THIS LOCALWOMAN SAID SHE BROUGHT HERHUSBAND'S ASHES IN A PLASTICBAG.AFTER MASS, SHE RAN SOME ERRANDSAND HER HUSBAND'S ASHES CAMEWITH HER.FIRST STOP, THE POST OFFICE.>> I COULDN'T FIND MY CELLPHONE, SO I TOOK THINGS OUT OFMY BAG, AND I GUESS I LEFT THEPLASTIC BAG ON TOP OF THECOUNTER.NOT REALIZING IT, I LEFT ANDWENT OUT TO BREAKFAST. SANIKA: IT WASN'T UNTIL AFTERSHE WENT HOME WHEN SHE REALIZEDTHE ASHES WERE NO LONGER IN HERPURSE.BY THE TIME SHE DROVE BACK TOTHE POST OFFICE, PALM BEACHCOUNTY DEPUTIES AND FIRE RESCUEWERE SURROUNDING THE AREA.THE BUILDING EVACUATED ANDHAZMAT TEAMS ON SCENE.WHEN SHE CAME UP TO OUR CREW TOASK WHAT WAS GOING ON, HERREACTION WAS IMMEDIATE.>> THE MINUTE I DROVE UP ANDJUST KIND OF CLICKED IN MY HEAD.I SAID, OH MY GOD, THEY MUST'VEFOUND THE ASHES, THINKING THEYWERE SOMETHING ELSE.SANIKA: SURE ENOUGH, WHEN SHEWALKED INTO THE POST OFFICE,DEPUTIES HAD ALREADY CLEARED THESCENE.BUT THE HECTIC DAY DID BRINGSOME SORT OF COMFORT.>> IT WAS AN EVENTFUL DAY A YEARAGO AND IT'S BEEN AN EVENTFULDAY RIGHT NOW.IT WAS A BIG RELIEF, YOU KNOW.I JUST FELT LIKE HE WAS STILLWITH ME BUT I ALSO FELT VERY,VERY BAD FOR ALL THESE PEOPLETHAT HAD TO COME OUT THINKING ITWAS SOMETHING TERRIBLE.SANIKA: THE GOOD NEWS HERE ISSUEIS ABLE TO REGAIN

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A local woman says her husband's ashes were responsible for the evacuation of the Royal Palm Beach Post Office Monday morning. The woman, who spoke to WPBF's Sanika Dange, did not want to reveal her name. Monday marked one year since her husband's death, so she took some of his ashes to a Mass being held in his honor. After Mass was over, she headed to the post office to run some errands and accidentally left the ashes behind. She didn't notice that the ashes were missing until after she went to breakfast and returned home. Meanwhile, officials had already begun responding to reports of a suspicious powdery substance at the post office. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and the Palm Beach County Fire Rescue arrived just before 11:30 a.m. and created a perimeter. The post office post office was evacuated as hazmat teams went in to test the substance. When the woman returned to collect the ashes, she saw the heavy police presence in the area, and she said she realized what had happened. She spoke to deputies and regained custody of the ashes. The scene was also cleared by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. As she walked out of the Royal Palm Beach Post Office, the woman told Dange that she was anxious to get home and relax after such an eventful day. "I think it was a sign. It's him telling me that he's still around and he's still kicking somewhere and he just wanted me to know about it," the woman said. She also extended an apology to all the first responders.