Santa Barbara Police Investigate Bomb Threat at S.B. Middle School
No Known Threat to Campuses in District
[UPDATE 4:58 p.m.]
Staff and faculty were back on campus this afternoon, after Santa Barbara Middle School evacuated after a bomb threat was phoned into the main office at around 11:10 this morning. Though classes and sports were canceled for the day, and students sent home, the Police Department bomb squad gave the all clear by 1:30 p.m. They apparently found nothing, said Darren Brews, the school’s lead for communications, but were looking into the phone number the school received.
Brews said everyone was out of the building within five minutes as they’d rehearsed in evacuation drills. They then walked down to the Santa Barbara Bowl, their neighbor to the south. “They’re very good friends of ours, neighbors, and within a few minutes we were all out and safe.”
