{"id":301764,"date":"2026-10-07T18:26:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/301764\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T18:26:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:26:43","slug":"police-investigate-source-of-bomb-threat-that-led-to-evacuation-at-reading-high-school-district-says-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/301764\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate source of bomb threat that led to evacuation at Reading High School, district says | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2014 Authorities are investigating after a bomb threat prompted an evacuation at Reading High School on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Reading School District said the school was evacuated shortly before 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Reading Police Department conducted a K-9 search of the building and surrounding areas, the district said.<\/p>\n<p>Police cleared the scene after the threat proved unfounded, the district said.<\/p>\n<p>The police will continue to investigate the source of the threat, the district said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While this threat was likely a hoax, we understand the anxiety a situation like this can cause for our families, students, staff and community,&#8221; the district said.<\/p>\n<p>The district said a crisis team will be available Wednesday for all students and that its priority is the safety and well-being of students and staff.<\/p>\n<p>The district encouraged students, staff, parents and community members to share information about incidents or safety concerns via the Safe2Say Tip Line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2014 Authorities are investigating after a bomb threat prompted an evacuation at Reading High School on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24800,124201,3628,128,130,129,45398,124202,114284],"class_list":["post-301764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-bomb-threat","tag-k-9-search","tag-police-investigation","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-high-school","tag-safe2say-tip-line","tag-school-evacuation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}