{"id":853243,"date":"2026-08-10T18:36:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853243\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T18:36:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:36:02","slug":"downtown-halifax-reopens-after-evacuation-due-to-threat-suspicious-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853243\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Halifax reopens after evacuation due to threat, suspicious vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Halifax police arrested a man on Monday morning following a bomb threat he allegedly made involving downtown Halifax.<\/p>\n<p>Officers contained a suspicious vehicle in the parkade at 1969 Upper Water St. by the Purdy&#8217;s Wharf towers before 9 a.m. on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Police issued an alert about a bomb threat in the area of Upper Water Street and evacuated the surrounding area in downtown Halifax. The evacuation was lifted by 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The evacuation order included businesses, and pedestrians were asked to leave the area as well.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A map of downtown Halifax outlines the evacuation area in red and the streets that are closed to vehicle and pedestrian traffic in yellow.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786386962_443_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.2941176470588236\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>A map of downtown Halifax outlines the evacuation area in red and the streets that are closed to vehicle and pedestrian traffic in yellow. (Submitted by HRM)<\/p>\n<p>In a news release, police said the man was arrested on Thomas Raddall Drive near the Canada Games Centre in the Clayton Park area of Halifax. <\/p>\n<p>The Canada Games Centre was closed but was scheduled to reopen at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Shull was one of the tourists evacuated from a hotel in the downtown zone.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was in the shower when the alarm went off and a voice over the speaker urged everyone in the hotel to leave.<\/p>\n<p>He said he didn&#8217;t know why he had to evacuate until he searched online.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Schwarz, who had a flight scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Monday afternoon back to New York, said she couldn&#8217;t get past the police barriers to get her luggage and rental car in the hotel, but she understands why the safety precautions are necessary.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH | CBC&#8217;s Brett Ruskin at the scene on Monday morning:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786386962_906_default.jpg\"  alt=\"\" class=\"thumbnail\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"video-item-title\">Part of downtown Halifax evacuated due to bomb threat<\/p>\n<p>Halifax police arrested a man on Monday morning following a bomb threat he allegedly made involving downtown Halifax. Police issued an alert about a bomb threat in the area of Upper Water Street and evacuated several areas in the city. The CBC&#8217;s Brett Ruskin is at the scene with the latest.<\/p>\n<p>MORE TOP STORIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-853243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}