{"id":285427,"date":"2010-02-05T16:45:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8679a48970b"},"modified":"2010-02-05T16:45:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:45:43","slug":"bomb-threat-prompts-evacuation-at-cal-state-northridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/285427","title":{"rendered":"Bomb threat prompts evacuation at Cal State Northridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Cal State Northridge student\u2019s fear that someone had planted a bomb in his car triggered a campus emergency today, prompting the evacuation of more than 100 people.<\/p>\n<p>A male student reported around noon that he believed his car, parked\u00a0in a\u00a0lot on campus, had been rigged with a bomb, said Vance Peterson, vice president of university advancement.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said he is affiliated with a gang, and he fears retaliation from a rival gang,\u201d Peterson said. \u201cThis is not an attack on the university.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Police Department&#8217;s bomb squad was dispatched to the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>About 100 occupants of a nearby university preschool and dozens more at a\u00a0lab facility were moved to other locations, Peterson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s being treated seriously,&quot; he said. &quot;If true, it could endanger people on the campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Ann M. Simmons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cal State Northridge student\u2019s 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\u00a0in a\u00a0lot on campus, had been rigged with a bomb, said Vance Peterson, vice president of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}