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UPDATED: Steilacoom High evacuated, students sent home after bomb threat found

Post by Stacey Mulick / The News Tribune on May 7, 2010 at 12:52 pm with 5 Comments »
May 7, 2010 5:34 pm

UPDATE:  District spokesman John Cohen said no bomb was found at the school  by police who searched the school.

No bomb was found last Wednesday after another bomb threat was made at the school, he said.

Police are at Steilacoom High School this afternoon after a bomb threat was found written on a wall in the building, the second such threat this week.

The students have been evacuated and are being sent home for the day, said John Cohen, director of district communications for the Steilacoom Historical School District. Buses have been dispatched to take the students home. No one has been injured and everyone is safe.

Police dogs and police will be going through the school, “looking for anything that might be out of place,” Cohen said.

“We take situations like this very very seriously,” he said.

Farwest Drive Southwest and Steilacoom Boulevard are blocked off to keep bystanders safe, Cohen said.

This is the second bomb threat this week at Steilacoom High School. A similar threat was found toward the end of the school day Wednesday.

Students were evacuated and police and fire officials searched the building. Nothing suspicious was found.

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  1. tonjadbrown says:

    It’s one of the students doing this so they can stay home. It’s too bad that an entire school is shut down because of some writing on the wall. I don’t mean to downplay this, what I mean to convey is that any punk teenager can do this, knowing it will disrupt the entire school. That is just caving in to a snot-nose punk brat.

  2. YeeHaw says:

    Yup. Right up to the point your kid is injured. Then suddenly it’s the school’s fault for not protecting your kid, and you sue them for a zillion dollars.

  3. lgcnelson84 says:

    My sisters go to SHS, and I’m glad the school takes stuff like this seriously. They have security cameras, so hopefully between that and parents talking to their kids, someone will be identified and stopped.

  4. Alinup says:

    How much power do we give terrorists?

  5. sl35351 says:

    We used to just pull the fire alarm for a an hour or two break.
    I guess a “bomb threat” gets the entire school the entire sunny day off.

    I wish we were so naive 20 or so years ago. That’s progress!

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