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The residents of a home on West Pleasant Place, off Racetrack Road, said they were not expecting a package and considered it suspicious, so they called authorities, WJXT-TV reported.
The immediate adjacent residences were evacuated and the cul de sac closed as a precaution while authorities inspected what appeared to be an improvised explosive device. They remain out of their homes until a second device is detonated.
A law enforcement robot used to explore potentially explosive devices retrieved the top of the box for evidence prior to detonating the device.
The fact that the devices were active, combined with the Twin Towers markings, led authorities to take this case very seriously, immediately requesting that Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and FBI agents come to the scene, according to WJXT-TV.
"We have an Sept. 11 scene -- a scene of New York City prior to Sept. 11," St. Johns County officer Chuck Mulligan said. "After that fact, we're not going to too many specifics about the device itself, certainly we'll let ATF and our investigators look at that."
Authorities told WJXT-TV's Adam Landau that they are interviewing everyone in the neighborhood and making sure no other devices are nearby.
"Normally, even if someone has designed a package to look as though it's an explosive device, we find nothing explosive inside," Mulligan said. "Certainly different today."