{"id":162743,"date":"2026-02-20T16:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162743\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:44:11","slug":"bomb-squad-responds-to-tigert-hall-on-university-of-florida-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162743\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb squad responds to Tigert Hall on University of Florida campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; University of Florida officials warned people to avoid the area of Tigert Hall on Southwest 13th Street on Friday morning. They say a heavy police presence responded to the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say the university police requested the Alachua County Bomb Squad after a suspicious person left a backpack on campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This developing story will be updated as more information is learned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; University of Florida officials warned people to avoid the area of Tigert Hall on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,132,77855,2511,77854,2512],"class_list":{"0":"post-162743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news","11":"tag-police","12":"tag-tigert-hall","13":"tag-uf","14":"tag-ufpd","15":"tag-university-of-florida"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162743","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=162743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}