Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton, California has been closed and students have been sent home due to a police investigation involving an early Friday morning bomb threat.
ABC News reports the school’s principal received an email earlier this morning, at 7 a.m., in which a bomb threat was conveyed. Lt. Jeff Bretzing said students were told to stay away from campus until police and K-9 unit swept the school, reports NBC. The Alameda County Sheriff’s Department Bomb Team was also called to the high school, which has more than 2600 students enrolled.
The Pleasanton police and school staff partnered to evacuate the buildings and sent students home for the day. Detectives are still working to trace the location the email was sent from.
Principal Tom Drescher reportedly told NBC Bay Area that the email threatened “numerous bombs on campus.”
Parents report receiving an automated call from the district this morning, alerting them of the bomb threat and that police will be conducting an investigation on campus.
The Pleasanton Unified School District said that students are being asked not to attend school “until the campus is deemed free of potential threats,” reports SF Gate.
No roads have been closed in the area, and all other schools in the district are operating normally.
Students and journalists alike have flocked to Twitter with status updates on the situation.
Amador high principal Tom Drescher got the bomb threat via email this am sped to school to clear campus @nbcbayarea pic.twitter.com/yyey1pXuR5
— Jessica Aguirre (@JessAguirreNBC) September 18, 2015
#avhs amador valley high school in pleasanton locked down. Students being asked to wait outside school until further notice
— karthik chandran (@KarthikC_) September 18, 2015
#Breaking: Police investigating a threat at Amador Valley High School in #Pleasanton #AVHS
— Laura Garcia Cannon (@LauraGarciaCann) September 18, 2015
hey Amador students if you don't already know there's been a bomb threat so don't go to school until further notice!!
— kb (@_kirstybrown_) September 18, 2015
the one morning I wake up before 7 ofcourse there's a bomb threat and I don't have to go to school
— tor (@harman_tori) September 18, 2015
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