Tacoma, Wash. — Tacoma Police have removed a potentially explosive device from a Tacoma neighborhood on Wednesday night.
Heavily-armed SWAT team members surrounded a home on south McKinley Ave. in Tacoma Wednesday afternoon as police and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms swarmed the residence.
Police spokeswoman Officer Loretta Cool said a possible explosive device was reported around noon. Residents in the area were contacted by text telling them to stay inside. They were allowed to return to their homes at around 6 p.m.
Police spokeswoman Officer Loretta Cool said a possible explosive device was reported around noon. Residents in the area were contacted by text telling them to stay inside. They were allowed to return to their homes at around 6 p.m.
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Deanna Lopez spoke with KIRO 7 by telephone from her home, where she was sheltering in place after receiving the warning.
“There’s been a reported explosive device in your area,” Lopez said, repeating the message she received. “We ask that you do not leave your house.”
Lopez said she was in her home with her three-year-old child and 74-year-old mother, pacing anxiously because of what was happening outside.
“It just makes you a little nervous when they say there’s an explosive device and they don’t know where it’s at," Lopez said.
At Sheridan Elementary School just blocks away, students were hustled onto buses and evacuated. Tacoma schools spokesman Dan Voelpel said the district was notified first to lockdown, then told to clear out the school.
“We have not had an evacuation of this scale in at least six years that I’ve been working at the district,” Voelpel said.
Students were taken to Boze Elementary to be reunited with their parents.
Deanna Lopez spoke with KIRO 7 by telephone from her home, where she was sheltering in place after receiving the warning.
“There’s been a reported explosive device in your area,” Lopez said, repeating the message she received. “We ask that you do not leave your house.”
Lopez said she was in her home with her three-year-old child and 74-year-old mother, pacing anxiously because of what was happening outside.
“It just makes you a little nervous when they say there’s an explosive device and they don’t know where it’s at," Lopez said.
At Sheridan Elementary School just blocks away, students were hustled onto buses and evacuated. Tacoma schools spokesman Dan Voelpel said the district was notified first to lockdown, then told to clear out the school.
“We have not had an evacuation of this scale in at least six years that I’ve been working at the district,” Voelpel said.
Students were taken to Boze Elementary to be reunited with their parents.
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Andre Smith came to the school to take his son home, and he said he's keeping him there.
Andre Smith came to the school to take his son home, and he said he's keeping him there.
“I’m going to keep my kids home, they ain’t coming to school tomorrow,” Smith said. “I don’t feel my kids are safe.”
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