Multiple Valley high schools locked down after hoax bomb threats

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Several Central Valley precocious schools were placed connected lockdown connected Wednesday aft instrumentality enforcement agencies responded to a bid of weaponry threats that authorities aboriginal determined were hoaxes.

Officers were called to Reedley High School aft a telephone telephone threatening that a weaponry would beryllium placed connected campus.

Video from an ABC30 Insider showed a dense constabulary beingness astatine the school, including a sheriff's K-9 unit.

The field was locked down for adjacent to an hr portion officers searched the area. No credible menace was found.

Reedley was not the lone field affected. Fresno-area schools, including Fresno High School, Bullard High School, and Clovis High School, besides received weaponry threats astir the aforesaid time.

Each field was placed connected lockdown arsenic instrumentality enforcement conducted thorough sweeps of classrooms and buildings.

Clovis constabulary said agencies coordinated arsenic the threats came in.

"We shared accusation with the different agencies that besides received these threats contiguous arsenic well," said Sgt. Sean O'Brien of the Clovis Police Department. "I don't person the details of those different calls, but we enactment retired the accusation we received to spot if determination are similarities, perchance the aforesaid suspects and aforesaid threats."

At Clovis High School, constabulary deployed a drone to springiness officers a birds-eye presumption of the field during the search. Authorities said each menace is treated arsenic existent until proven otherwise.

"There's thing that we would instrumentality as, oh, this mightiness beryllium fake, we don't privation to get into that mindset," O'Brien said. "We privation to dainty it arsenic if its existent until we tin beryllium otherwise."

Investigators said alleged swatting calls person go progressively sophisticated. O'Brien said callers often usage fake telephone numbers oregon caller ID spoofing to conceal their identities.

When calls originate from extracurricular authorities lines, national agencies whitethorn go involved.

"They tin beryllium charged either arsenic misdemeanors oregon felonies and with that, radical tin beryllium looking astatine years successful situation and fines and outgo betterment for exigency services that are dispatched to those," O'Brien said.

All campuses were yet fixed the all-clear, and nary injuries were reported.

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