A construction team made a shocking discovery at the Port of Long Beach on Wednesday afternoon when they inadvertently unearthed a World War II-era explosive device, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The eight-decade-old shell was found at one of the port\u2019s six container terminals, according to a port spokesperson. <\/p>\n
The Long Beach police and fire departments and the U.S. Coast Guard evacuated the terminal and established a safety perimeter, while the L.A. County Sheriff\u2019s Department Bomb Squad responded and assessed the situation. The remaining terminals continued to operate as normal during that time.<\/p>\n
A U.S. Marine Corps ordnance disposal team determined that the device was safe to transport and moved it off site, where it was deactivated. <\/p>\n
The port resumed normal operations Wednesday night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A construction team made a shocking discovery at the Port of Long Beach on Wednesday afternoon when they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6577,4019,11054,11059,11055,11057,11056,131,133,132,63,11062,1284,11061,11058,4450,11060],"class_list":["post-12003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-authority","tag-construction","tag-container-terminal","tag-department-bomb-squad","tag-explosive","tag-fire-department","tag-l-a-county-sheriff","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-normal-operation-wednesday-night","tag-port","tag-safety-perimeter","tag-shocking-discovery","tag-u-s-coast-guard","tag-wednesday-afternoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}