Hazmat team responds to Auburn Correctional Facility on Thursday

A hazmat team was called to Auburn Correction Facility Thursday after a suspicious substance was found.

Auburn firefighters and an ambulance were called to the prison around 9:30 a.m. The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said there was “evidence of a suspected unknown substance” at the prison, so a hazmat crew was called in “out of an abundance of caution.”