Crime & Safety

Bomb Threat Directed at Palisades Charter High School via Social Media

UPDATED: The threat interrupted polling as well. The polling place has now been moved to Los Angeles Fire Station 69.

Originally posted at 10: 45 a.m. Nov. 4, 2014. Edited with new details.

A bomb threat today directed at Palisades Charter High School -- which was serving as a polling station -- led authorities to move the voting location and evacuate the campus.

Explosive experts were sent to the campus at Temescal Canyon Road and Sunset Boulevard after authorities learned of the threat -- made via social media -- about 8:30 a.m., the Los Angeles Police Department reported.

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The school was evacuated, and the polling place was moved about a half- mile away to Los Angeles Fire Station 69, at 15045 Sunset Blvd., said LAPD Officer Drake Madison.

About 11:45 a.m., the campus was declared safe, and arrangements were being made to reopen the polling place on campus, police said.

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--City News Service

Patch Senior Editor Penny Arévalo contributed to this report.

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