{"id":254237,"date":"2026-04-06T16:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/254237\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T16:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:09:09","slug":"live-mortar-found-in-sacramento-yard-prompts-evacuation-safely-removed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/254237\/","title":{"rendered":"Live mortar found in Sacramento yard prompts evacuation, safely removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A potentially dangerous discovery in a Sacramento County yard prompted an evacuation yesterday as authorities worked to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/2163153594445496\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:safely remove a live mortar;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;safely remove a live mortar&quot;}\" class=\"link \">safely remove a live mortar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/2163153594445496\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>, North Patrol deputies responded to a call after a homeowner\u2019s son uncovered an object while digging in the yard that was suspected to be unexploded ordnance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nearby residents were evacuated as a precaution while the Sheriff\u2019s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team assessed the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Following confirmation of the item\u2019s legitimacy, the U.S. Air Force also responded. The object was determined to be a live <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/2163153594445496\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:81mm mortar;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;81mm mortar&quot;}\" class=\"link \">81mm mortar<\/a>, which was safely removed and destroyed without incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Sheriff\u2019s Office thanked the public for their cooperation during the evacuation and reminded residents to avoid handling any suspicious items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A potentially dangerous discovery in a Sacramento County yard prompted an evacuation yesterday as authorities worked to safely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[112759,121,357,123,122],"class_list":["post-254237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-patrol-deputies","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-county","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254237","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=254237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}