Rohnert Park street evacuated while explosives removed

<p>A Rohnert Park neighborhood was evacuated Tuesday night while a bomb squad removed what were believed to be explosives from a parked truck.</p><p>The residents of about 20 homes on Mary Place near Bodway Parkway were told to leave their homes at about 8:30 p.m. as the UC Berkeley bomb squad was brought in.</p><p>They were allowed to return about two hours later after the suspicious contents of the older-model Chevrolet flatbed truck were removed. The truck had been parked on the street for about a month, residents said</p><p>Sgt. Jeff Justice of the Rohnert Park Public Safety department said the truck did not contain a bomb or similar device but that that there was “something dangerous in it.”</p><p>His department received a call about the potential risk inside the truck at 6:30 p.m. and later called in the university bomb squad, which has a contract with the city.</p><p>Kyle Morris, 24, was just moving into the neighborhood Tuesday — he was pulling up in a moving truck — when he was greeted by an evacuation order. </p><p>“I asked the police if it was OK to park the truck and they said yes. But then the bomb squad arrived.”</p><p>Justice said investigators had been in contact with the truck owner, but he declined to elaborate.</p>