(KRON) – A bomb squad disposed of an unexploded military device at a beach in Monterey County.

The Monterey County Sheriff’s office said they received a call Saturday about an unexploded device that washed up on the north end of Zmudowski State Beach in North Monterey County just before 11 a.m.

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The device was an approximately 27-inch-long unexploded military phosphorus flare, according to the sheriff’s office.

The Monterey County Sheriff’s Bomb squad disposed of the device at about 1:10 p.m. at the location where it was found. The sheriff’s office said that people in the surrounding area may have felt a large boom.

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