Posted on 09/19/2007 6:28:56 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
EMERSON, N.J. (NorthJersey.com/AP) -- Schools in about a dozen northern New Jersey towns will be closed Thursday because of a bomb threat addressed to the mayor of Emerson.
Emerson schools were evacuated Wednesday and had early dismissal as a precaution, but the district says its three schools will reopen Friday.
Other districts closing Thursday are Oradell, River Edge, Closter, Demarest, Haworth, Harrington Park, Northvale, Norwood and Old Tappan, along with Northern Valley and River Dell regional high schools.
Northern Valley Schools Superintendent Jan Furman said the letter claimed the Emerson schools and two unnamed schools in nearby towns would be "blown out'' at 11:30 a.m. Thursday.
Bomb squads were searching schools in Emerson and other districts.
In Oradell, Police Chief Rhynie Emanuel said administrators of the five schools, including a nursery school, met at Borough Hall about half an hour after police were notified of the threat. They agreed to shut down schools Wednesday and throughout Thursday, including all school-sponsored extracurricular activities.
Bergen County Police Capt. Kevin Hartnett said that bomb threats at schools have become a yearly occurrence, and officials take quick action.
“We take school safety very seriously,” Emanuel said.
I started teaching the year Colombine happened. I was doing a long term sub which started the week it happened. We had 2 bomb threats the next week at the high school where I was teaching. It was a royal pain in the patootie.
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Is that by you? Its far from me at least..
Far from me too.
I was surprised by all the closings.
it’s an over reaction as was the wayne valley HS smoke bombs in june, granted, what they did was wrong, careless and stupid; however, the sheriff’s dept. and county prosecutor put on one big show and now the 4 honor students face 20 yr. sentences. Law Enforcement seems to do this to justify the millions spent in equipment, training and salaries.
>>>Law Enforcement seems to do this to justify the millions spent in equipment, training and salaries.
Agreed.
Well, they could have started school at noon today!
Or dismissed for early lunch and returned :)
About a year before Columbine, our local high school here in NJ received multiple bomb threats culminating with the bomb squad finding a fake incendiary device on the roof of the building. Students were arrested, but I think only one did jail time for a year maximum.
But those were different times. That was before 9/11. We’re at war now.
yep, and when you’re in a war, you don’t send letters to the other side alerting them that you will be detonating a bomb at 11:30 am.
I remember they identified the floor plans for a school in Demarest NJ on a laptop found in Iraq. It’s so close to home and believe me, if they intended to do any harm, they wouldn’t have sent a letter. And in Chechnya they were not warned. I think schools should do as they do in Israel—train and arm the teachers. The liberals and gun grabbers don't want anyone to know that in many parts of the world, teachers and schools are armed with firearms.
We also need to stop immigration, build a wall at our borders, end work and student visas. This will stop the terrorists from entering our nation.
That’s all true. But, if these threats aren’t taken seriously, and then something bad happens, people will scream about the people in charge ignoring the threats. So there’s probably as much CYA going on here as anything.
If the schools close for a day or two, I could care less. One less day for the kiddies to learn about two mommies and the evils of Republicans... lol. I wish they’d close for good.
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