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Employees of Fullerton Police Department evacuated their offices Wednesday evening after a bomb threat was called in at 5:32.
Dispatch received a call from someone claiming there was a bomb in the department and that it would explode in 10 minutes if not found, officials say.
As a precaution, everyone in the building was evacuated to the back parking lot until the offices were deemed safe. DET (Directed Enforcement Team), the gangs and narcotics units, and several cadets searched for anything suspicious and found nothing on the premises.
“Calls like yesterday’s are extremely rare and typically don’t produce much of anything in terms of actual danger,” says Sgt. Jeff Stuart. “That being said, whenever we receive a bomb threat, we absolutely must treat it with the utmost vigilance because it only takes one time.”
Officials from FPD warn against future false bomb threats due to the disruption they cause throughout the department. There are ways to catch anyone making these types of phone calls and those caught face felony and, potentially, federal charges, according to authorities.
