{"id":254369,"date":"2026-04-06T17:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/254369\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:55:08","slug":"live-mortar-round-dug-up-in-north-sacramento-yard-bomb-squad-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/254369\/","title":{"rendered":"Live mortar round dug up in North Sacramento yard, bomb squad responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bomb squad crews and the U.S. Air Force responded to a Sacramento County home after an apparent unexploded ordnance was found in the yard over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says North Patrol deputies responded Sunday after a homeowner&#8217;s son uncovered what appeared to be a mortar round while digging in the yard.<\/p>\n<p>Residents in the immediate area were evacuated, and the sheriff&#8217;s office&#8217;s Explosive Ordnance Disposal team was called to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies say the U.S. Air Force was also called in after the item&#8217;s legitimacy was confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The item was indeed a live 81 mm mortar, the sheriff&#8217;s office says. Crews were able to remove and safely destroy it.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities did not speculate where the live mortar came from, but residents say unexploded ordnance has turned up in the area for years following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/roseville-yard-disaster-memories-still-smolder-50-years-after-explosion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">the 1973 Roseville yard disaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bomb squad crews and the U.S. Air Force responded to a Sacramento County home after an apparent unexploded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[23493,121,357,123,122],"class_list":["post-254369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-north-sacramento","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\/254369","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=254369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}