Police cleared out a school building and evacuated several nearby homes after an employee found a suspicious device on Friday morning.

School superintendent Tim Ryan reports he got a call around 7:15 a.m. that an employee had gone into a school office building on East Ramsey Street near Poplar Street and found the device. The superintendent said the Buffalo police chief described the device as having "duct tape with a green fuse sticking out of it."

As a precaution, the Springfield Fire Department bomb squad checked it out. A news release from the Buffalo Police Department says the bomb squad defused the device.

Ryan says the incident didn't disrupt any classes. He said students had a normal start to the school day.

Police cleared the scene and let people return to their homes by late morning.

Anyone with information about the device is asked to call Buffalo Police.