KETTERING — Kettering City School students will return to the classroom today after a bomb threat forced the district to evacuate four elementary schools on Friday.
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As reported on News Center 7 Daybreak, four elementary schools, Orchard Park, Beavertown, Southdale, and Prass, were evacuated one hour into the school day.
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Orchard Park Elementary was the first school to get the bomb threat just after 8 a.m.
Then, seven minutes later, Southdale Elementary got a threat, with Beavertown Elementary getting one 10 minutes later.
And then someone called Prass Elementary just after 9:30 a.m.
Parents showed up at the schools to pick up their children.
“I was at work, so I was a little surprised, really definitely worried,” said one mom, Megan DiFrancesco.
Another parent, Cynthia James, said that she was told that the caller had told dispatchers that they had planted bombs outside the school within the past few days.
“They all walked up the street to make sure everybody was secure,” said Kyle Ogle, referring to the SWAT officers who arrived on the scene.
Police used search dogs to help their search, but did not find anything suspicious or any devices that had been planted.
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