Westport residents may have heard an explosion Tuesday evening, as the town's police and fire departments called in the state bomb squad to detonate a device that was found in a resident's garage.
The Westport Fire Department stated in a Facebook post just before 6 p.m. Tuesday that the object was safely detonated behind the dirt piles at the town's highway department.
"There was no threat to the public and the device was safely neutralized," the post read.
But what was it?
According to Westport's Deputy Fire Chief Dan Baldwin and police Sgt. Bryan McCarthy, it was a simulation hand grenade commonly used in military training exercises.
Although not a real grenade, the device can produce a loud "report" in order to simulate an explosion.
McCarthy said the training grenade was found in the garage of a recently sold house.