The situation in New Orleans connected to the Bourbon Street attack on New Year's Eve is growing more and more complex, it seems, by the hour. The latest reports from that troubled city involve a small house fire; when the New Orleans Fire Department responded, they found bomb-making materials.

Bomb-making materials were reportedly found at a New Orleans Airbnb, as authorities investigate a possible connection to the truck-ramming terror attack that killed at least 15 people and injured over 30 others on Bourbon Street during a New Year's celebration.

A small fire broke out at a suspected Airbnb property located in the 1300 block of Mandeville Street in the St. Roch neighborhood of New Orleans around 5:30 a.m. Wednesday.

The New Orleans Fire Department evacuated dozens of people from nearby homes and contacted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, FOX 8 reported.

The exact nature of those materials has not yet been released. Laptop computers and cellular phones recovered from the property are said to be linked to the Bourbon Street terrorist attacker, Shamsud-Din Jabbar. Fox News' report, linked above, continued:

The FBI confirmed at a news conference Thursday that FBI and ATF agents have secured that house on Mandeville Street and "that location is being searched for potential evidence." Two laptops were recovered from that address, the FBI said, and an additional three cell phones linked to the now-deceased suspect, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, were being analyzed by investigators.

At Thursday's news conference, ATF said that the Mandeville address is still being processed and the ATF national response team – comprised of certified fire investigators, explosives specialists, fire engineers and electrical engineers – were still working additional leads to help identify how the fire started the morning the attack unfolded across town on Bourbon Street.

If in fact this house and these materials are linked to Jabbar, then this might speak to a level of planning that's beyond most criminal mass attacks. This is preparation that must have taken weeks, if not months.

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It's important to note that many things could fall under the umbrella of "bomb-making materials." As of this writing, neither the New Orleans authorities, the FBI, nor the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) have made any statement of precisely what was found. The presence of two laptops and three phones is, to put it mildly, unusual. The phones in particular would give one the impression that Jabbar was in contact with other individuals, but as yet it is unclear if these are throwaway "burner" phones or how they were being used.

This is still a developing situation. We will bring you updates as events warrant.

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