UPDATE, NOON: Mark McKenna — LoCO contributor and Humboldt County’s top news photographer beyond any sort of a doubt — was at the scene when the bomb squad did its business.

The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department Bomb Squad deployed a robot at a construction site at the foot of H Street in Eureka today to remove unexploded ordnance believed to be from World War Two.

A member of the the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department Bomb Squad controls a bucket to place the unexploded ordnance into the bomb disposal truck.

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UPDATE, 11:20 a.m.: ALL CLEAR: Sgt. Steve Watson of the EPD tells the Outpost that the bomb squad has both pieces of ordnance secured. The evacuation should be lifted shortly.

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UPDATE, 11:10 a.m.: From reader Greg Beaumont, sleepy First Street.

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UPDATE, 11:02 a.m.:  Photos of the scene and the ordnance from Sgt. Steve Watson of the Eureka Police Department:

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UPDATE, 10:55 a.m.: Lost Coast Outpost reader Malissa Mori sends the following photo of two tow trucks and a blocked intersection at 2nd and H. Taken at about 10:15 a.m., she says.

More photos from LoCO contributor Mark McKenna coming soon.

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UPDATE, 10:48 a.m.: Lt. Steve Knight of the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office informs us that the bomb squad is still at the site as of right now. “When they deal with this stuff, it tends to go real slow,” he said. 

One unexploded shell has been found. They’re looking for the second one, Knight said.

Knight said that the explosives are at a construction site near the foot of H Street — the location of an old shipyard.

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UPDATE, 10:13 a.m.: The T-S reports that the evacuation is being prompted by the discovery of unexploded World War II-era shells at the corner of I Street and Waterfront Drive.

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A large section of Old Town Eureka is being evacuated as we speak. Kathy Michaels, owner of Strictly For The Birds, says that police have closed First and Second streets between E and I, or thereabouts, and are evacuating buildings.

Michaels says her understanding is that unexploded ordnance was found at the soil remediation project currently underway down by the waterfront.

Updates coming quickly. Pictures? Reports? Send ‘em — lostcoastoutpost@gmail.com.