No New Information Found in Dutch Fork High Bomb Threat

The identity of a caller that phoned the Richland County Sheriff's Department on Monday about a bomb at Dutch Fork High School is still unknown.

Richland County Sheriff's Deputy Curtis Wilson said the department was trying to determine who initiated the call.

More than 2,000 students and staff members of the building on Monday after the sheriff's department received a call about 1:30 p.m. on Monday about a bomb at the school.

Students and staff were evacuated to the Dutch Fork Middle School campus until the end of the school day. All of the activities that were scheduled Monday evening at Dutch Fork High were canceled.

The school was cleared about 6 p.m. on Monday for students and staff to return, according to the school's blog Silver Fox Report.

Wilson said during a telephone call Wednesday that there was nothing that the bomb squad found at the school that would have posed a threat to the students and staff.

"As far as finding anything that was detrimental to anybody's lives, no," he said.

During a telephone call on Tuesday, Buddy Price, District 5's director of community services, said the school was back to regular operation.

Calls to Dutch Fork High were not immediately returned Wednesday.