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A portion of East 38th Street was closed as Erie Police investigated a vehicle that may contain a potential destructive device.<\/p>\n
East 38th Street was blocked beginning at Marion Street, and motorists were advised to avoid the area and use alternate routes.<\/p>\n
According to authorities at the scene, the vehicle was located near Marion Street, across from JoAnna Connell Elementary School. As a precaution, the school was placed in \u201csecure\u201d status while police work to secure the area and further assess the situation.<\/p>\n
The Erie Public School\u2019s released this statement Tuesday at 11:36 a.m.:<\/p>\n
All JoAnna Connell students are now being evacuated by district bus to Wilson Middle School, 718 E. 28th St., as law enforcement continues to address the suspicious item found in a car on East 38th Street. This is a precautionary measure only; all staff and students remain safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Parents and guardians: It is not necessary to pick your child up from Wilson Middle School. Should you choose to do so, you must bring identification with you. Students will only be released to those individuals listed as parents or guardians in Infinite Campus.<\/p>\n
We anticipate that this incident will be resolved by dismissal time. We will continue to keep you updated regarding dismissal procedures for bus riders, car riders and walkers, and as new information becomes available.<\/p>\n
Thank you for your patience and your trust.<\/p>\n
Erie’s Public Schools<\/p>\n
A bomb squad and a robotic device processed the scene and inspected the vehicle for any potential destructive devices.<\/p>\n
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EmergyCare and Erie Fire Department were on scene as a precaution as JoAnna Connell was evacuated.<\/p>\n
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Erie Police have stated that the street is safe and will be reopened soon. Crews are actively leaving the scene. The car has also been deemed safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A portion of East 38th Street was closed as Erie Police investigated a vehicle that may contain a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[127092,30212,136,138,137,5585,26771,294,6654,118434],"class_list":["post-310694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-east-38th-street","tag-elementary-school","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-police","tag-lockdown","tag-public-safety","tag-road-closure","tag-suspicious-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310694","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=310694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}