Military personnel based at Patrick Space Force Base safely removed a World War II-era bomb from a construction site near Freedom 7 Elementary in Cocoa Beach on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Airmen with the 45th Explosive Ordnance Disposal team were dispatched after the Brevard County Sheriff\u2019s Office initially responded to a report of suspected unexploded ordnance at the site, according to a press release from Space Launch Delta 45 at the base.<\/p>\n
The item later identified by the disposal team as an American-made practice bomb was found by a construction crew that had been breaking ground near the school.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis type of ordnance does not contain high explosives but is equipped with a smoke charge to mark the location of impact during air training exercises,\u201d the press release stated.<\/p>\n
The disposal team confirmed it was safe to move and brought it to\u00a0Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for disposal.<\/p>\n
The team\u2019s role with the Space Force is to provide first-responder support to launches from CCSFS and Kennedy Space Center.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are also responsible for the location, identification, render safe, and disposal of hazardous unexploded conventional, chemical, and biological ordnance, as well as improvised explosives,\u201d the release stated.<\/p>\n
The group has a partnership with the sheriff\u2019s office to ensure public safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Military personnel based at Patrick Space Force Base safely removed a World War II-era bomb from a construction…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[315,28,29,114,266,115,139,141,140,554,109,1769],"class_list":["post-169077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-brevard-county","tag-florida","tag-florida-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-science","tag-social","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}