Bomb threat called in to LC high school

Lewis and Clark High School students and staff briefly evacuated the building Thursday afternoon after a bomb threat was phoned in, but police found no explosives.

The school received the threat around 12:30 p.m., Spokane police spokesman Cpl. Jordan Ferguson said. An explosives unit searched with a bomb-sniffing dog before giving the all-clear around 1:45 p.m.

Charlotte Wall, an 11th-grader, said many students in her fourth-period Spanish class thought the alarm was a drill since they had a lockdown drill earlier this week.

Staff quickly came on the school’s intercom saying, “This is not a drill” and telling students to evacuate immediately, she said. Everyone gathered at a field several blocks from the school.

The group of students was relatively quiet as they waited for police to search the school, though several groaned audibly when teachers began telling them to head back inside.

Police spokeswoman Officer Teresa Fuller said police will work with the school district to investigate.