Broomfield High Evacuated, Searched After Threat Reports

BROOMFIELD, CO — Broomfield High School was searched and cleared Thursday, police say, after authorities received a possible threat to the school on Safe2Tell. The school received "a number" of reports of a possible threat and decided to dismiss the students.

Students who walk or drive to school went home under police supervision, those who ride the bus were taken to their normal stops and those who are picked up were taken to the Broomfield United Methodist Church to be picked up.

With the students gone, police searched the school and found nothing suspicious.

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The Boulder Valley School District said in a tweet soon after noon that they couldn't verify the credibility of the threat, but dismissed students and swept the school as a precautionary measure.

Though the school's been cleared, school officials canceled all after school activities, including away events.

School will resume tomorrow as normal.

Authorities said there was at no time a threat to other schools. In the past few days, however, multiple schools in the Denver area have dealt with possible threats in the wake of the 20th anniversary of the Columbine shooting.

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