Cal State LA Evacuated After Bomb Threat
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UPDATE| 3:40 p.m.:
LAPD officer Christopher No says the bomb threat is over and nothing was found on the Cal State LA campus.
ORIGINAL STORY | 1:52 p.m.:
Cal State LA was evacuated Thursday after police received two calls about a bomb threat, officials say.
El Monte police say the first call came in around 10:45 a.m., and the other call came in around 11:37 a.m. The callers said the bomb would go off in two hours.
About 15,000 to 20,000 students were asked to evacuate the campus starting at noon.
The university sent out two tweets about the closure.
"The CSULA campus is closed as of noon, April 18, as a precaution. Those on campus should evacuate immediately," was the first tweet at 12:38 p.m.
"The campus is being evacuated due to an emergency. We don't have additonal information at this time," they school tweeted eight minutes later.
