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Jacksonville police bomb squad removes live Civil War-era cannonballs from Amelia Island museum

By Amanda Winkle
By Amanda Winkle

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. — Fernandina Beach fire, police and the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office bomb squad responded Tuesday afternoon to the Amelia Island Museum of History after two Civil War-era cannonballs were determined to be live.

The museum said in a Facebook post that Frank Ofeldt of Fort Clinch determined that the cannonballs were live.

UPDATE: The cannonballs have been safely removed and taken to be detonated off site. We will have the pieces returned to...

Posted by Amelia Island Museum of History on Tuesday, December 20, 2016

The museum showed JSO's Bomb Squad responding to the museum to remove the cannonballs on Facebook Live.

JSO bomb squad has entered the building to remove the cannonballs

Posted by Amelia Island Museum of History on Tuesday, December 20, 2016

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