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Manual Arts High School Evacuated Due to Possible Bomb

by Amy Judd | August 25, 2010 at 10:51 am

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Update: 3:10 pm PT - The Possible Explosive Device Has Been Rendered Safe

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Manual Arts High School is Evacuating Their Students Due to the Threat of a Possible Explosive Device on Campus

CNN is calling the device a 'possible pipe bomb' and ABC7 reports that students were being evacuated from the South Los Angeles high school due to some kind of explosive device possibly being located on campus. Numerous news reports cited that the school had been evacuated, but students at the school are saying that was not the case.

Due to these preliminary reports, buses on Vermont are being detoured away from the area and local bus service is being affected (map).

No further information about the incident is available at this time but we will update this post with more information when it becomes available.

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nathen kibbles (not verified)

at 12:34 on August 25th, 2010

I am a manual arts high school student and there is a bomb threat but we are still stuck in the school so they better stop saying that we have evcuated becuase wew have not

nathaan kibbkes (not verified)

at 12:36 on August 25th, 2010

i am a student at manual arts high school and we have not been evacuated from the school we are still in here and have nothing to do!

Daniela hernandez (not verified)

at 13:14 on August 25th, 2010

My younger sister is currently attending there. She is stuck this i know. But is there any way to locate our family members attending here? And if evacuated where should we pick them up at?

Amy Judd

at 13:18 on August 25th, 2010

Reports were stating that people had been evacuated to a nearby athletic field, but there is no official announcement on their website at this time.

Carol Evans (not verified)

at 15:37 on August 25th, 2010

that was lame and they kept us there till afterschool!

TA'ZON WATKINS (not verified)

at 19:37 on August 25th, 2010

I am a Manual Arts NAI student and my reaction 2 this incident was surprised about who would want 2 do something like this.Today was ironic and i was really scared. It was really ironic and whoever was the main cause 2 this incident must not have been aware that they were jepordizing their own lives and others in the school and in the area and will be found since the FBI was there.

0210bonie (not verified)

at 05:06 on August 26th, 2010

i am an off track faculty member of manual arts and it gave me trememdous concern of how possible could anyone put such dangerous objects in there where as the security is very tight and the administrators are doing their best to make us all safe and out of the harm way...

abelmanual (not verified)

at 23:24 on August 31st, 2010

Manual Arts, and many of the inner-city schools in Los Angeles, do not know how to handle situations like these. If there was a possible bomb threat I would not like to have been stuck inside of the school just waiting for the bomb to go off. Secondly, who would want to put a bomb at Manual??