An apparent firecracker explosion at the Burbank Commons Apartments near campus caused a scare among residents and a response from the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office on Thursday night.”There was no shooting, and cops were out there for another situation, and while we were there, someone thought it would be funny and set off a firework,” a sergeant with the Sheriff’s Office who would not give her name told The Daily Reveille on the phone. Word of possible gunfire in the area quickly spread after 8 p.m. on social networking sites, including Facebook and the LSU sports message board TigerDroppings.com.”What was really weird was when we went outside there were already like 10 cops cars driving around and police on foot talking to people,” said biochemistry senior Robert Oubre, who lives there. “We’re pretty confident it was a firecracker because it smelled like one of those big ones you put in a tube.”Some students reported seeing burned portions of sidewalk where a firecracker may have ignited.Others also reported seeing officers use flashlights to search several vehicles in both the Commons and the Sterling University Crescent parking lots.Caitlyn Blanchard, a biology sophomore who lives in the Crescent apartments, said she saw officers looking in a “sketchy” car’s trunk at the Commons, which is located at 4600 Burbank Drive. She said it looked “like a drug bust” and added she heard no information about a firework exploding in the area. Brandi Monjure, a communication studies junior who lives in the Crescent, said her boyfriend was coming to visit her and saw a commotion in the parking lot. “He saw two cop cars in the Burbank Commons parking lot and another four or five in ours.” Monjure said. “As he was walking, he heard the noise, and when he turned around, he saw firecrackers in the sky.” Jane Berteau, a business sophomore who lives in the Commons, said she saw police cars in the Commons parking lot, where officers were looking into car windows.The sergeant refused to provide further details and said a public information officer would not be available to provide further information until Friday morning. —–Contact The Daily Reveille news staff at [email protected]