{"id":2908,"date":"2016-09-17T11:20:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T15:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=2908"},"modified":"2016-09-17T11:20:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T15:20:22","slug":"seaside-park-boardwalk-evacuated-after-device-detonates-bomb-squad-on-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2016\/09\/seaside-park-boardwalk-evacuated-after-device-detonates-bomb-squad-on-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaside Park Boardwalk Evacuated After Device Detonates; Bomb Squad on Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2909\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"A device smoking near D Street in Seaside Park. (Credit: Amy Costello\/Shorebeat Photo)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2909\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2909\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A device smoking near D Street in Seaside Park. (Credit: Amy Costello\/Shorebeat Photo)\" width=\"618\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A device smoking near D Street in Seaside Park. (Credit: Amy Costello\/Shorebeat Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Seaside Park boardwalk is closed and police K9 units and a bomb squad have been called to the scene around D Street after some type of device detonated.<\/p>\n<p>Shorebeat obtained a photo of a device smoking in a trash can. Other reports said an explosive device in a backpack detonated. It was unconfirmed as to whether there was a single or multiple detonation. A possible second device was found at about 11 a.m., police communications indicated.<\/p>\n<p>Federal agents from the ATF and FBI were en route.<\/p>\n<p>The Semper Five Marine Corps 5K run has been postponed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire town is basically on lock down and being evacuated,\u201d one witness said via social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe boardwalk and all the nearby roads leading to the boardwalk were closed in the area,\u201d said Amy Costello, a witness who wrote to Shorebeat.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2016\/09\/seaside-park-boardwalk-evacuated-after-device-detonates-bomb-squad-on-scene\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seaside Park boardwalk is closed and police K9 units and a bomb squad have been called to the scene around D Street after some type of device detonated. Shorebeat obtained a photo of a device smoking in a trash can. Other reports said an explosive device in a backpack detonated. It was unconfirmed as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,8,5],"tags":[812,810,811,510,32],"class_list":["post-2908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","category-seaside-heights","tag-bomb","tag-explosion","tag-ied","tag-seaside-park-boardwalk","tag-seaside-park-nj-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-KU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}