{"id":297393,"date":"2026-06-05T16:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297393\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T16:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:49:09","slug":"false-alarm-triggered-jacksonville-evacuation-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297393\/","title":{"rendered":"False alarm triggered Jacksonville evacuation | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Ill. (WAND) &#8211; An evacuation in Jacksonville was caused by a false alarm, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville police were called to N. Westgate Ave. around 3:30 Thursday afternoon at the railroad overpass for a report of a suspicious device.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The device was originally described as an explosive device but was later identified as a component on the railroad tracks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The area was temporarily shut down and evacuated but was opened immediately after the situation was deemed safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026. WAND TV. All rights reserved.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Ill. (WAND) &#8211; An evacuation in Jacksonville was caused by a false alarm, police said.\u00a0 Jacksonville police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35719,9879,116,118,117,266,35720,35721],"class_list":["post-297393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-decatur","tag-illinois","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-local-news","tag-wand","tag-wandtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297393","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=297393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}