{"id":317887,"date":"2026-10-30T21:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T21:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/317887\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T21:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T21:54:12","slug":"william-allen-high-school-dismisses-early-after-bomb-threat-5th-threat-in-last-2-weeks-allentown-area-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/317887\/","title":{"rendered":"William Allen High School dismisses early after bomb threat, 5th threat in last 2 weeks | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; William Allen High School dismissed students early Friday after receiving its fifth threat since last week, Allentown School District spokesperson Melissa Reese said.<\/p>\n<p>Around 11:45 a.m., officers from the Allentown Police Department were alerted by the Allentown School District of a telephoned bomb threat to William Allen High School, a news release says.<\/p>\n<p>According to the release, William Allen High School was evacuated and secured by the Allentown Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The Allentown Police Department says the Allentown School District cooperated and collaborated with them, including dismissing students for the day.<\/p>\n<p>The Allentown School District, Allentown Fire Department, Bethlehem Police Department, Salisbury Police Department, and Federal Bureau of Investigation responded to assist, the release says.<\/p>\n<p>The Allentown Police Department says it is currently conducting a thorough investigation into this threat.<\/p>\n<p>A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/lehighvalley\/lehigh-county\/allentown-area\/threat-against-school-community-that-prompted-lockdown-at-william-allen-high-school-was-not-credible\/article_6039c9b5-a310-42b5-adb8-e5ebc265f060.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cswatting-type\u201d false threat prompted a brief lockdown<\/a> at the school Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the high school received <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/lehighvalley\/lehigh-county\/allentown-area\/3-juveniles-arrested-in-connection-with-previous-bomb-threats-as-william-allen-hs-receives-threat\/article_6c4b5a59-8114-4e1f-bfd5-bfe9e7b2f625.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">three bomb threats in three days<\/a> last week. Police made arrests in connection with two of those three threats.<\/p>\n<p>\nCopyright 2026 Maranatha Broadcasting Co., Inc.. All Rights Reserved.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; William Allen High School dismissed students early Friday after receiving its fifth threat since last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,24800,19144,10966,10208],"class_list":["post-317887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bomb-threat","tag-evacuation","tag-school-lockdown","tag-william-allen-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317887","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=317887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}