{"id":220746,"date":"2026-04-06T16:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220746\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:42:09","slug":"deputies-respond-after-bomb-threat-sparks-evacuation-at-the-florida-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220746\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputies respond after bomb threat sparks evacuation at The Florida Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Deputies in Orange County said a bomb threat on Monday forced a precautionary evacuation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials said they responded to the mall around 10:25 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The mall was evacuated out of an abundance of caution, but the threat appears not to be credible, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Deputies are still at the scene and investigating the source of the bomb threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Channel 9 has a crew gathering more details and will provide updates on Eyewitness News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputies in Orange County said a bomb threat on Monday forced a precautionary evacuation. Officials said they responded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4920,28,30,29,1335],"class_list":{"0":"post-220746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-bomb-threat","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-orange-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220746","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=220746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}