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October 2, 2007

Bomb threat evacuates Woonsocket High

WOONSOCKET -- Woonsocket High School evacuated 1,910 students today after the Police Department received notice around noon that there was a bomb at the high school. No device was found after a search of the school.

High School Principal Lourenco Garcia said that police told him they had been notified that there was a bomb at the high school and that it would go off at 12:30 p.m.

Garcia said that students were asked over the public address system to go to their classrooms where their teachers were, and the teachers led them out of the school and away from the building. The students were out by 12:20 p.m., he said.

The students were dismissed early, and the buses came to pick them up.

Woonsocket Police Chief Michael L.A. Houle said that 12 officers went to the high school and the state bomb squad was called. “We had them go through the school with negative results,” he said. The police are investigating the bomb threat, he said.

Garcia said the school followed procedures to get students out of the building as quickly as possible. He said that students had specific instructions to wait for their buses but some took off. “Everyone was trying to do the best they could under the circumstances. When something of this nature happens it is impossible to have things run the way you want, but we will learn from it.”

-- Journal staff writer Tatiana Pina

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Hmm, all students were out of the school by 12:20 NOT. I was driving by the school and noticed the students were exiting the school, I took notice of the time, 12:30. I think the new pricipal needs to learn how to tell time. What if there was a bomb, and it was to go off at 12:30, I would have seen this instead of students exiting. You would think they would have had the kids leave sooner. Oh well, what you expect from Woonsocket anyway, sad, but don't expect much

Woonsocket Resident | October 3, 2007 3:46 PM link

i am a junior at woonsocket high school, and it was a hassel.
some kids were running and screaming like they were on fire.
but it was overall a good job that the teachers and the faculty of WHS to move everyone down to cass pond and away from the school.

eddiy young | October 4, 2007 4:48 PM link

It was a hassel? We clearly overpay your english teacher.

Greg | October 5, 2007 10:59 AM link

October 2, 2007

Bomb threat evacuates Woonsocket High

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