Suspicious envelope with powder found in SLC Temple

(KSL News) A suspicious envelope containing an unknown white powder was found this afternoon at Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City.

It was found inside an office in the entrance area to the Salt Lake Temple. That is in an area open to the public.

They have since placed the letter into a black bag.

Both Salt Lake City police and fire departments are on the scene and have closed off the area, including eastbound lanes of North Temple between State Street and Main Street.

They are not evacuating the temple but are not allowing anybody inside.

Scott Freitag of the Salt Lake City Fire Department says someone in the office opened the envelope, saw the powder and called the fire department.

"We don't have any indication there's any sort of threat with it," Freitag says. "So we're just going to go in now. Our Hazmat team will go in and take a look at it, see if they can make any determination of what it is by looking at it. Most likely it will have to be tested."

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