View Larger Map 80-year-old Jersey City man leaves pot on stove, comes back to find massive response, including Secret Service agents Saturday, June 05, 2010 By MICHAELANGELO CONTE JOURNAL STAFF WRITER The U.S. Secret Service and emergency responders including a mobile medical crisis truck converged on the home of an 80-year-old Jersey City man yesterday where unidentified chemicals and a letter to the President turned out to be harmless, officials said. At 1:52 p.m. firefighters responded to the building at Bergen Avenue and Forrest Street and found no one home in the apartment where a pot on the stove had boiled dry and cloth inside had ignited, Fire Director Armando Roman said. But what firefighters also found was 60 to 80 half-gallon containers of unknown substances and an envelope with President Obama's name on it, triggering a massive response. A short time later the resident walked back from his trip to a store and found his home was the center of a large investigation. He said he must have forgotten to turn the stove burner off when he walked to the store and noted that he sells perfume in Newark and he mixes the chemicals at home, Roman said. The hazmat responders confirmed that the bottles seemed to contain harmless perfume components, Roman said. Yesterday evening James Mattola, assistant special agent in charge of the New Jersey Secret Service Office, confirmed that agents had responded to the apartment building. Mattola would not comment on specifics, but said only that his office determined there was no threat.