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LOS ANGELES, June 23 (UPI) -- Authorities shut down a runway at Burbank Airport Monday while they examined a truck that an anonymous caller said was filled with explosives.
The examination also suspended rail traffic in the area for several hour.
But the truck actually contained pyrotechnics used in movies, and investigators now believe the call was tied to either a labor dispute or was a prank.
The Los Angeles Times says police and federal authorities spent much of the night in a frantic search for what the caller described as an explosives-filled truck. The call came into the California Highway Patrol at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. The truck was found near the airport around 3:30 a.m. Monday, not far from an airplane fuel storage facility.
Police sealed off a one-square-mile area and bomb-sniffing dogs were brought in. When authorities opened the truck, they found various props used to simulate gunshots in movies and television programs.
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