Bomb risk requests evacuation at Cal State Northridge
A Cal State Northridge student’s fear that someone had planted a bomb as part of his car triggered a campus emergency today, prompting the evacuation of more than 100 people.
A male student reported around noon that he believed his car, parked in the lot on campus, have been rigged having a bomb, said Vance Peterson, v . p . of university advancement.
The Los Angeles Police Department’s bomb squad was dispatched on the scene.
Like a precautionary measure, Peterson said university officials activated a mass communication emergency system to alert faculty, staff and students through message or calls, e-mails and text-messaging.
About 100 occupants of an nearby university preschool and dozens more at a lab facility were moved with other locations, Peterson said.
“It’s being treated seriously,” he said. “If true, it would endanger people within the campus.”
