ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 Gatorland in Orlando was forced to evacuate on Tuesday over a reported bomb threat, according to the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
News 6 originally received a tip about the evacuation from a viewer, though the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office said it was \u201cworking on gathering information.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, News 6 Community Correspondent Jayna Manohalal went out to Gatorland around 4 p.m. to see what was going on.<\/p>\n
Upon arrival, she discovered from people at the scene that they\u2019d been evacuated into the parking lot but weren\u2019t initially told why.<\/p>\n
Deputies later revealed that a bomb threat had been reported, which prompted the evacuation.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur deputies conducted an extensive search and did not locate any devices,\u201d investigators wrote. \u201cOur detectives are investigating this incident.\u201d<\/p>\n
As a result, people were cleared to head back in.<\/p>\n
No additional information has been provided at this time.<\/p>\n
Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n
Get breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n
Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 Gatorland in Orlando was forced to evacuate on Tuesday over a reported bomb threat,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1684,265,25639,1335,139,141,140,2411],"class_list":["post-301782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-animals","tag-crime","tag-gatorland","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-theme-parks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301782","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=301782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}