{"id":266495,"date":"2026-04-14T01:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/266495\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T01:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:21:06","slug":"fullertons-st-jude-medical-center-receives-bomb-threat-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/266495\/","title":{"rendered":"Fullerton&#8217;s St. Jude Medical Center receives bomb threat | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The St. Jude Providence Medical Center in Fullerton received a bomb threat earlier today, but the scene has since been cleared after an extensive search.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to an Instagram update, outside agencies and explosive-detecting canines were deployed, as well as a shelter-in-place being issued.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The threat was reported by the hospital to Fullerton Police Department Dispatch at 2:05 p.m., according to Kristy Wells, Fullerton PD public information specialist, in an email to the Daily Titan.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At the time, investigations were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The threat was announced on the Fullerton PD&#8217;s Instagram page around 3 p.m., requesting that residents avoid the area to allow police to conduct an investigation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On Nov. 17, 2025, Fullerton received five bomb threats in one day, with St. Jude&#8217;s Medical Center Emergency Room at the same hospital being targeted.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Several schools were targeted the same day, with Sunny Hills High School, Fullerton Union High School, Troy High School and Fern Drive Elementary School all receiving threats.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Because of Cal State Fullerton&#8217;s proximity to several of the high schools, particularly Troy High School, students were warned to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Less than two weeks later on Nov. 30, St. Jude Providence Medical Center received another bomb threat.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The threat stated that there were &#8220;multiple bombs at a &#8216;St. Jude Hospital Child Research Center,'&#8221; despite there being no children&#8217;s hospital owned by St. Jude in the city of Fullerton.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This story was updated at 5:21 p.m. with additional information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Jude Providence Medical Center in Fullerton received a bomb threat earlier today, but the scene has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,33087,2628,1583,116440,11431],"class_list":{"0":"post-266495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-bomb","12":"tag-fullerton","13":"tag-hospital","14":"tag-st-jude","15":"tag-threat"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}