What is the latest on the bomb threat at Cal State Northridge (CSUN)?”
A Cal State Northridge student’s fear that someone had planted a bomb in 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 a lot on campus, had been rigged with a bomb, said Vance Peterson, vice president of university advancement. “He said he is affiliated with a gang, and he fears retaliation from a rival gang,” Peterson said. “This is not an attack on the university.” The Los Angeles Police Department’s bomb squad was dispatched to the scene. As a precautionary measure, Peterson said university officials activated a mass communication emergency system to alert faculty, staff and students through phone calls, e-mails and text-messaging. About 100 occupants of a nearby university preschool and dozens more at a lab facility were moved to other locations, Peterson said. “It’s being treated seriously,” he said.
6 2010 CSUN Bomb Threat: Police issues emergency, but no bomb found A male student’s fear that his car has been rigged with a bomb, spun off an emergency at Cal State Northridge campus on Friday afternoon. The Police cordoned off a part of the campus, alerted the people at the university through a mass communication emergency system and sent a Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad to the campus. But the reports inform that the fears have been groundless and no ‘suspicious item’ has been recovered from the car. Vance Peterson, vice president of university advancement, has informed that the student is related to a gang and he apprehended retaliation from the rival gang in the form of a bomb-plant. The suspected attack was not on the university. The area covering the pre-school and a lab school near the B5 parking structure and B6 lot off Plummer Street fell under the emergency. Southern California Public Radio has this e-mail, sent by police to the faculty, staff and students, posted
A Cal State Northridge student’s fear that someone had planted a bomb in 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 a lot on campus, had been rigged with a bomb. “He said he is affiliated with a gang, and he fears retaliation from a rival gang,” Peterson said. “This is not an attack on the university.” The Los Angeles Police Department’s bomb squad was dispatched to the scene. As a precautionary measure, Peterson said university officials activated a mass communication emergency system to alert faculty, staff and students through phone calls, e-mails and text-messaging. About 100 occupants of a nearby university preschool and dozens more at a lab facility were moved to other locations, Peterson said. “It’s being treated seriously,” he said.
