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TAMPA, Fla. – Officials at MacDill Air Force Base<\/a> say a threat prompted the precautionary evacuation of MacDill Inn, a hotel on base in Tampa<\/a>.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n According to a statement released Thursday, the MacDill Inn was evacuated “out of an abundance of caution” after the threat was reported.<\/p>\n “We take all threats seriously and are taking appropriate measures to prioritize the safety and security of our installation,” MacDill Air Force Base officials said in the statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n Just last month, a brother and sister were charged<\/a> after an explosive device was found outside the visitor center area of MacDill Air Force Base. The brother, Alen Zheng, remains at large after fleeing to China<\/a>.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n Base officials did not provide details about the nature of the threat or the specific security measures being implemented, due to their policy.<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear at this time how long the evacuation will last or if any additional areas of the base are impacted.<\/p>\n This is a developing story. Officials say more information will be released as it becomes available.<\/p>\n The Source: Information for this story was provided by a MacDill Air Force Base social media post.<\/p>\n Tampa<\/a>MacDill Air Force Base<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article TAMPA, Fla. – Officials at MacDill Air Force Base say a threat prompted the precautionary evacuation of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[47,629,37633,2583,115,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-225671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-fl","9":"tag-hillsborough","10":"tag-macdill-afb","11":"tag-military","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-st-pete","14":"tag-st-pete-headlines","15":"tag-st-pete-news","16":"tag-st-petersburg","17":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","18":"tag-st-petersburg-news","19":"tag-tampa","20":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225671","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=225671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}