High school receives bomb threat
A Uniontown Area High School student is accused of phoning in a bomb threat Monday morning that forced officials to evacuate the school for almost an hour. According to Dr. Charles Machesky, Uniontown Area School District superintendent, the threat was called into the high school office before 11 a.m., and students were immediately evacuated to the Uniontown Fireman’s Social Hall on Dunbar Street.
The district had bomb-sniffing dogs search the building as soon as students had been taken to the Dunbar Street location.
Machesky said within 10 minutes of the threat call, officials at Fayette County 911 were able to determine that the call came from a cell phone and learned that the phone belonged to a student at the high school.
“Before noon, the student was in custody and admitted to police that it was a hoax, so the students returned to school,” he said.
He thanked the Uniontown police and fire departments for their cooperation with the district to help get students out of the school and to help investigate the incident.
“Everything went flawlessly,” Machesky said. “It just shows that modern technology won’t let you get away with anything.”