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Central High School evacuates students in bomb scare
by Outspoken on Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:00 am
Central High School evacuates students in bomb scare
By Nok-Noi Ricker
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
CORINTH, Maine — Another bomb threat shut down Central High School on Monday morning, forcing students and staff to evacuate the building and further frustrating students and parents upset with the frequent disruptions.
“This is their fourth one this year,” parent Jennifer Lodge of Corinth said while law enforcement investigators searched the school. “They had eight last year. This is a problem.”
Superintendent Dan Higgins said Monday evening that the evacuation was only the second one so far this year and that he believed there were only five last year.
School officials have made efforts to prevent the false reports, but precautions must be taken to ensure student safety, Higgins said earlier in the day while standing in the school parking lot.
Monday’s threat was “specific enough to activate our emergency response plan,” he said. “We evacuated our students to an alternate location, accounted for all of them and secured the facility.”
The approximately 375 students were evacuated at around 11:20 a.m., said Higgins, who declined to identify how the most recent threat was made.
“Law enforcement is on-site now conducting the investigation,” he said at around 1 p.m.
Penobscot County Sheriff's Department deputies and Maine State Police troopers went to the school and searched the building with bomb-sniffing dogs. No explosive device was found, and the last deputy left the school at 3:45 p.m.
http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/92579.html
By Nok-Noi Ricker
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
CORINTH, Maine — Another bomb threat shut down Central High School on Monday morning, forcing students and staff to evacuate the building and further frustrating students and parents upset with the frequent disruptions.
“This is their fourth one this year,” parent Jennifer Lodge of Corinth said while law enforcement investigators searched the school. “They had eight last year. This is a problem.”
Superintendent Dan Higgins said Monday evening that the evacuation was only the second one so far this year and that he believed there were only five last year.
School officials have made efforts to prevent the false reports, but precautions must be taken to ensure student safety, Higgins said earlier in the day while standing in the school parking lot.
Monday’s threat was “specific enough to activate our emergency response plan,” he said. “We evacuated our students to an alternate location, accounted for all of them and secured the facility.”
The approximately 375 students were evacuated at around 11:20 a.m., said Higgins, who declined to identify how the most recent threat was made.
“Law enforcement is on-site now conducting the investigation,” he said at around 1 p.m.
Penobscot County Sheriff's Department deputies and Maine State Police troopers went to the school and searched the building with bomb-sniffing dogs. No explosive device was found, and the last deputy left the school at 3:45 p.m.
http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/92579.html
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