{"id":110897,"date":"2026-01-08T21:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/110897\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T21:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:17:06","slug":"hoax-causes-code-red-at-lake-brantley-high-school-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/110897\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoax causes Code Red at Lake Brantley High School, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 Lake Brantley High School and nearby Forest City Elementary were put on a Code Red on Thursday because of a tip about a possible threat, according to Seminole County Public Schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The tip had been called in and prompted the Code Red out of an abundance of caution, the school district said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Dismissal was expected to be delayed as Altamonte Springs police swept the campus, but both the police department and school district issued updates around 3 p.m. calling the tip a \u201choax\u201d and promising an investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cLaw Enforcement has confirmed that this call was a hoax, and the FBI and law enforcement will be working to identify the caller,\u201c the school district said in a statement, adding some officers would stick around to help with traffic congestion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">There was no threat to either Lake Brantley High School or Forest City Elementary, the district said. Both schools were said to be in the process of dismissal at the time of this writing.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">Get breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 Lake Brantley High School and nearby Forest City Elementary were put on a Code&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4131,47231,56516,139,141,140,1014],"class_list":["post-110897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-altamonte-springs","tag-code-red","tag-lake-brantley-high-school","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-seminole-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}