Suspicious incendiary device found near Blue Ridge Parkway prompts evacuation

Rangers with the National Park Service (NPS) responded to a conception of the Blue Ridge Parkway adjacent Asheville, North Carolina, connected Sunday aft receiving reports of a suspicious point successful the dirt.

Officials with the NPS said the instrumentality was located adjacent an intersection by the Folk Art Center astatine astir 11:45 a.m.

The Asheville Police Department Bomb Squad, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation responded to the scene, arsenic did occurrence and exigency crews from Asheville and Riceville.

The NPS said the Folk Art Center was evacuated and a conception of the parkway was closed temporarily arsenic a precaution.

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Asheville, North Carolina, Blue Ridge Parkway, Folk Art Center, crafts exhibits and accusation sign. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Specialists safely removed the item, and the NPS said determination are nary existent threats to the public.

Officials referred to the instrumentality arsenic an "Improvised Incendiary Device." The NPS did not respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for further information.

The NPS said its investigative services subdivision is investigating the matter.

Anyone with accusation astir the incidental is encouraged to interaction the NPS Investigative Services Branch astatine 888-653-0009, by submitting a extremity astatine go.nps.gov/SubmitATip, oregon by emailing the bureau astatine nps_isb@nps.gov.

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An improvised explosive instrumentality was reportedly recovered on the Blue Ridge Parkway adjacent Asheville, North Carolina, connected Sunday. (Thomas O'Neill/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway began astir 90 years agone astatine Cumberland Knob, North Carolina, which is astatine the Virginia border.

Since then, the parkway has go an integral portion of the mountains and the Appalachian communities that prevarication on its 460-mile route, arsenic good arsenic a gateway to the region’s civilization and history.

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The 469 miles of scenic roadworthy stretches from Shenandoah National Park to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. (iStock)

With a apical velocity of 45 mph on its curving roads, the parkway besides offers a accidental for visitors to dilatory down and bask the scenery. The 264 overlooks connection breathtaking views of the mountains and valleys, sunrises and sunsets, and the stars connected wide nights.

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The parkway connects Shenandoah National Park with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It starts astatine Rockfish Gap, Virginia, intersecting Skyline Drive, and winds southwest done Virginia into mountainous occidental North Carolina. 

Travelers volition find campgrounds and hiking trails, glimpses of small-town Appalachian beingness successful places similar Floyd, Virginia, the tiny cities of Roanoke, Virginia, and Asheville, North Carolina, and galore different treasures tucked distant successful the mountains.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.