8-year-old makes jaw-dropping discovery in his Sacramento backyard — neighbors are evacuated
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“An 8-year-old boy in Sacramento County made a jaw-dropping discovery in his backyard — a live military mortar — setting off a neighborhood evacuation.”
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“North Patrol deputies responded just after noon when the homeowner’s son uncovered the object while digging in their yard on the 5500 block of Marconi Avenue.”
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“It was suspected to be unexploded ordnance, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office.”
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Wikipedia entries about Sacramento County Sheriff's Office and unrelated topics (Carmichael, California county jails) do not mention unexploded ordnance suspicions in this context.
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— Carmichael is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sacramento County, California, United States. It is an unincorporated suburb in the Greater Sacramento metropolitan area. The population was 79,793 at …
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— California's county jails function like county jails throughout the United States: they are used to incarcerate people pre-trial, through a trial and sentencing, and for some sentences of commitment. …
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— The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office (SSO), is a local law enforcement agency that serves Sacramento County, California. It provides general-service law enforcement to unincorporated areas of Sacram…
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“Neighbors waited outside their homes for four hours while the Sheriff’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal team investigated the scene carefully.”
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— On July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson ambushed and shot police officers in Dallas, Texas, killing five, injuring nine others, and wounding two civilians. Johnson, a 25-year-old Army Reserve Afghan War…
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— Baltimore County is the third-most populous county in the U.S. state of Maryland. The county is part of the Central Maryland region of the state. Baltimore County partly surrounds but does not include…
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— Brevard County ( brə-VARD) is a county in the U.S. state of Florida. It is on the Atlantic coast of eastern Central Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 606,612, making it the 10th-most …
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“The U.S. Air Force arrived and confirmed the object was a live 81mm mortar.”
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“Authorities safely removed and destroyed the mortar with assistance from Air Force explosive ordnance disposal teams from Beale Air Force Base, reported ABC10.”
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“Sgt. Edward Igoe of the Sacramento PD told the outlet that the munition discovered at the home dates back to 1953.”
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“That munition itself has a capability to send frag out 1,000 feet.”
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No relevant evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia entries to confirm or refute the mortar's fragment range capability.
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