An area along Western Avenue near Lonsdale has been evacuated after the Knoxville Fire Department responded to a report about a box with possible explosives at CMC Recycling. "We are doing this out of an absolute abundance of caution,

By the evening of Oct. 11, the Knoxville Police Department bomb squad had begun removing what appeared to be sticks of dynamite from the steel box that had been discovered and reported the previous afternoon,

The KPD spokesperson also said the department’s bomb squad had responded to the scene. “At this point we really don’t know what we’re dealing with, just operating with the