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LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. (CNS)<\/strong> – Police in Redondo Beach<\/a> shut down the city’s iconic pier for about four hours Sunday after receiving an unspecified threat, briefly delaying the opening of a nearby music festival.<\/p>\n The Redondo Beach Police Department responded about 9:35 a.m. Sunday to a “reported hostage situation involving possible explosives in the area of the Redondo Beach Pier,” said police Lt. Mark Valdivia.<\/p>\n “Upon arrival, officers established a perimeter around the pier and directed residents and visitors in the affected area to shelter in place and avoid the area while officers conducted a systematic search,” Valdiva said. “After an extensive search, officers determined there was no active threat to the pier, nearby residents or the surrounding community.”<\/p>\n The Federal Bureau of Investigation responded to assist Redondo Beach police with the investigation, he said.<\/p>\n The pier was reopened about 1:35 p.m., Valdiva said.<\/p>\n City Councilman Brad Waller wrote the following post on the BeachLife Festival’s Facebook page about 1 p.m.: “There was no threat made to BeachLife, but out of an abundance of caution, they want to ensure that the area is safe before thousands of people enter.”<\/p>\n Waller added: “The pier area and BeachLife space were searched, and nothing was found. BeachLife should be ready to open and proceed. The pier will remain closed for a bit longer.”<\/p>\n About 1:45 p.m., festival officials posted that they had been given the go-ahead to open doors. Sunday is the conclusion of the three-day festival, with Sheryl Crow, My Morning Jacket and James Taylor among those scheduled to perform at the Seaside Lagoon, a short distance north of the pier.<\/p>\n Anyone with information related to this incident is urged to contact the Redondo Beach Police Department Detective Bureau at 310-379-2477, ext. 3507.<\/p>\n Redondo Beach<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Los Angeles County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. (CNS) – Police in Redondo Beach shut down the city’s iconic pier for about…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":772213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,6082,2961,224,6080,5337,50,72025,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-772212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-crime-publicsafety","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-county","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-redondo-beach","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116515414350011529","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}