Albert Gallatin High School cleared after bomb threat
Albert Gallatin High School students were evacuated Thursday morning after a bomb threat was discovered in the girlĢƵ bathroom at the beginning of the school day.
Principal Jason Hutchinson said the note was penciled on the back of a stall door and claimed a bomb would go off at 7:30 a.m. A student reported finding the note at 7:20 a.m. Hutchinson said students were evacuated to the football field within five minutes.
Superintendent Carl Bezjak said fingerprints were taken from the stall door and sent to the state police crime lab in Greensburg. The student responsible for writing the note will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, he said.
He said school police completed a visual search of the school. A state police bomb dog officially cleared the building. Students returned to classes after about 2.5 hours to have “as normal a day as possible,” Hutchinson said.
“Speaking to our teachers, our students handled it very well and were very well behaved,” he said. “So hats off to the students and staff for handling the situation so well.”