Overview
- The Alameda Police Department issued an alert on X at 1 p.m. reporting a suspicious item near Sixth Street and Taylor Avenue.
- Alameda police officers and county sheriff’s deputies, including the sheriff’s bomb squad, are conducting on-scene examinations.
- The blocked area sits beside The Child Unique Montessori School and across from Saint Barnabas Catholic Church, though no classes were in session.
- Authorities have provided no further information about the device’s composition or origin as the probe remains active.
- Officials continue to bar pedestrian and vehicle access and have urged the public to avoid the vicinity until the scene is declared safe.