According to a post on the Walworth County Fire/EMS Scanner Page on Facebook, Williams Bay Command has struck it’s Safey Box call as no threat was found during a sweep of Williams Bay High School after this afternoon’s bomb threat.
District Superintendent Wayne Anderson sent out a message via both phone and email to parents in the district informing them of the incident. Anderson said police and the fire department were called after the bomb threat was found written in the bathroom at the junior and senior high school this afternoon.
Anderson said students at the junior and senior high school were being evacuated from the school and transported to Williams Bay Elementary School.
As the school district was going to use a bomb dog to search the school and premises, students were released at the normal time from the elementary school. Students with vehicles in the high school parking lot are not able to come back to pick them up until after 6 p.m. tonight.
According to the page’s earlier post on Facebook, police, fire and rescue services were called to Williams Bay High School for a possible bomb threat this afternoon.
According to the page, Williams Bay Fire and Rescue pulled a Safety Box 36-6 to the second alarm, requesting engines from Elkhorn and Town of Delavan fire departments, squads from the City of Delavan Police Department, ambulances from Fontana, Town of Delavan, Elkhorn and Walworth, chiefs from the Town of Delavan, Elkhorn and Walworth and the Racine Fire Bells.
In response to a comment, the page replied at about 2 p.m. that officials were sweeping the school and had not yet found anything suspicious.
More information will be posted to this site and included in this week’s issue of the Walworth Times as it becomes available.
