{"id":2087,"date":"2025-10-13T19:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/2087\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T19:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:08:13","slug":"update-after-bakersfield-residents-evacuated-and-bomb-disposal-unit-called-to-suspicious-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/2087\/","title":{"rendered":"Update after Bakersfield residents evacuated and bomb disposal unit called to suspicious package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An update has been issued after a number of residents were evacuated from their homes, as a bomb disposal unit was called to reports of a suspicious package.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghampost.com\/all-about\/nottinghamshire-police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Police;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Police<\/a> officers found the package during a property search on Ashworth Close, Bakersfield, with neighbours on the close and part of nearby Greenwood Road evacuated on Friday (October 10) afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police vehicles were stationed around the area, blocking off roads and warning neighbours to stay away.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some residents even booked hotel rooms after being told the restrictions could have remained in place overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, all road closures were lifted at around 8.40pm after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghampost.com\/all-about\/ministry-of-defence\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ministry of Defence&#039;s;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ministry of Defence&#8217;s<\/a> Explosive Ordnance Disposal engineers &#8211; better known as the bomb squad &#8211; arrived and resolved the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The MoD has now issued an update regarding the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A spokesperson said: &#8220;We can confirm an Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team was tasked to an item of EOD interest at the request of Nottinghamshire Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The item of interest was deemed innocuous and required no further EOD action.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An update has been issued after a number of residents were evacuated from their homes, as a bomb&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,2933,2936,2935,2934,2932],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bomb-disposal-unit","tag-ministry-of-defence","tag-police-vehicles","tag-residents","tag-suspicious-package"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","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=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}