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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/06/13/2007-06-13_high_school_evacuated_in_bomb_scare.html
UPDATE: Cops also found dynamite. Some pics were shown on the news, I'll try to get some.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2007/06/dynamite_forces_evacuation_of_1.html
UPDATE 2: News site with pics, and says the stuff wasn't dynamite, but M80s.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=our_schools&id=5393819
So the fire alarm went off 3rd period around 9:25ish, and we knew someone pulled it, because it wasn't planned. We stood outside for a while in our usual fire drill positions, and then we saw every administrator on their cell phones, men in dark suits and sunglasses, and several sheriff vans that had pulled up.
Then, we all were sent to our football field bleachers to chill for a while, and then our principal told us a bunch of firecrackers were found stashed in lockers with fuses sticking out, ready to be lit. However, as there was a high chance of rain today, we were sent to a Christian school across the street for shelter.
There, they told us that we would be dismissed around 11:55, which was when they planned on re-opening the school. The time went by really slowly, and by 11:55 they told us that the cops (which now included the local police, county police, state police, sheriff's department, and the FBI) wanted the school re-opened at 12:55 instead.
So we were all pissed off and moaning, because no one had eaten any food or had any water or other liquids for over 3 hours. As 12:55 came around, they told us that we would be dismissed in small sections at a time, because the cops wanted to search everyone before they left. Great.
So they took 4 rows at a time (there are hundreds of rows in the whole sanctuary, all of which were filled - there are 1400 kids in my high school) outside, where bomb sniffing dogs smelled all of our stuff and then we walked by a row of cops with hand detectors.
Here's a pic of the sanctuary:
At first I was sitting far away from where they started the dismissal, so all of my friends and I quickly moved closer, before the administrators started yelling at kids that tried to move. At that point, we weren't even allowed to go to the bathroom =/ A friend of mine who hadn't come to school today (lucky guy) called me and told me we made national TV - we were on MSNBC - and there were helicopters all over the area.
I finally got out around 2:30ish. What a day. The best part is - I'm part of the school newspaper, and the last issue, which is coming out in a day or two, includes an article about how Wayne and Wayne Valley are incredibly safe. Talk about irony.
UPDATE: Cops also found dynamite. Some pics were shown on the news, I'll try to get some.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2007/06/dynamite_forces_evacuation_of_1.html
UPDATE 2: News site with pics, and says the stuff wasn't dynamite, but M80s.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=our_schools&id=5393819
So the fire alarm went off 3rd period around 9:25ish, and we knew someone pulled it, because it wasn't planned. We stood outside for a while in our usual fire drill positions, and then we saw every administrator on their cell phones, men in dark suits and sunglasses, and several sheriff vans that had pulled up.
Then, we all were sent to our football field bleachers to chill for a while, and then our principal told us a bunch of firecrackers were found stashed in lockers with fuses sticking out, ready to be lit. However, as there was a high chance of rain today, we were sent to a Christian school across the street for shelter.
There, they told us that we would be dismissed around 11:55, which was when they planned on re-opening the school. The time went by really slowly, and by 11:55 they told us that the cops (which now included the local police, county police, state police, sheriff's department, and the FBI) wanted the school re-opened at 12:55 instead.
So we were all pissed off and moaning, because no one had eaten any food or had any water or other liquids for over 3 hours. As 12:55 came around, they told us that we would be dismissed in small sections at a time, because the cops wanted to search everyone before they left. Great.
So they took 4 rows at a time (there are hundreds of rows in the whole sanctuary, all of which were filled - there are 1400 kids in my high school) outside, where bomb sniffing dogs smelled all of our stuff and then we walked by a row of cops with hand detectors.
Here's a pic of the sanctuary:
At first I was sitting far away from where they started the dismissal, so all of my friends and I quickly moved closer, before the administrators started yelling at kids that tried to move. At that point, we weren't even allowed to go to the bathroom =/ A friend of mine who hadn't come to school today (lucky guy) called me and told me we made national TV - we were on MSNBC - and there were helicopters all over the area.
I finally got out around 2:30ish. What a day. The best part is - I'm part of the school newspaper, and the last issue, which is coming out in a day or two, includes an article about how Wayne and Wayne Valley are incredibly safe. Talk about irony.
