Officers from the 3rd District were called to the 1000 block of South 4th Street at 12:19 p.m. after reports of a device, police said. A staging area was set up at 4th and Washington Avenue in a recreation parking lot while the Philadelphia Police Bomb Squad investigated.
By 1 p.m., the Bomb Squad determined the grenade was "inactive" and "inert", officials said. No injuries were reported.
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