Hazmat teams respond to Deer Park home

A hazardous waste sticker on garbage placed for curbside pickup on a street in Deer Park led to the mobilization of hazmat teams from fire departments throughout the Town of Babylon, as well as Suffolk County police Emergency Services Unit officers Monday.

An investigation by those teams found no harmful items in that container, police said.

Police said a sanitation worker spotted a can with a hazmat sticker indicating potentially radioactive waste on it outside a home on Ponder Lane.

The Town of Babylon Fire Marshal, two police ESU teams and hazmat teams from the Deer Park Fire Department and other fire departments in the Town of Babylon responded, officials said. Police said the container was "tested for radioactive material" and said those tests "came back negative."

Officials could not immediately identify what kind of material had been stored in the can -- or explain why the hazmat sticker warned it was potentially radioactive.

It was not clear who had deposited the container in that trash or whether the container had been legally disposed.