{"id":684271,"date":"2026-05-21T02:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/684271\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T02:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:31:09","slug":"students-return-to-cairns-high-school-as-police-revoke-emergency-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/684271\/","title":{"rendered":"Students return to Cairns high school as police revoke emergency declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Students have been allowed back to some sections of a Cairns high school after police made an emergency declaration under the Public Safety Preservation Act (PSPA) following an ongoing incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Emergency services were called to the scene after 9:25am following reports of a threat and students, as well as those in surrounding buildings, were evacuated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said nothing suspicious had been found and revoked the PSPA declaration about 11:20am.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a crowd of people walking down path outside shops\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6b27fd990c22ee3ca24aea6e4636ec10.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police evacuated the school and surrounding buildings, setting up an exclusion zone. (ABC News: Sophie Johnson)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Residents were being allowed to return to the surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police had earlier told parents and carers not to attend the facility to collect their children while the incident was ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">An exclusion zone was set up between Lake Street, Minnie Street, Grove Street and McLeod Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Residents had been urged to remain indoors and to avoid the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students have been allowed back to some sections of a Cairns high school after police made an emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,72,252857,177748,6668,44,1158,329874,20637,12530],"class_list":["post-684271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cairns","tag-evacuated","tag-evacuation","tag-high-school","tag-news","tag-police","tag-public-safety-preservation-act","tag-school","tag-threat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}