A bridge linking Bergen and Essex counties was closed briefly on Saturday night so authorities could remove a World War II-era bomb located by a magnet fisherman, Lyndhurst police said.
The fisherman was using a magnet on a line and dropping it from the De Jessa Memorial Bridge – which links Lyndhurst in Bergen and Nutley in Essex – when he pulled out an an artillery shell, just before 8 p.m., police Capt. Vincent Auteri said.
The Bergen County Sheriff’s Bomb Squad responded and took the item and found it no longer had a fuse. The bridge was closed for about 40 minutes while the bomb squad worked, Auteri said…