State Police and the Boston Fire Department dispatched units around 3:30 p.m. on Friday to the Edward M. Kennedy Institute next to the JFK Library and the UMass Boston campus to investigate a doll just lying there with a label reading "caution" on it, after somebody called 911 and expressed fear the doll might have some sort of chemical on it.

At 3:40 p.m., the institute notified UMass of "an unfolding police matter, which immediately activated our Emergency Operations Plan and prompted a campus-wide alert to avoid the EMKI area," UMass Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco reported today. Both firefighters - responding to what they thought might be a hazmat situation - and the trooper notified their dispatchers not long after their arrival that the doll was not a threat, according to Broadcas

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