{"id":43976,"date":"2025-11-25T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/43976\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:58:08","slug":"giant-eagle-store-on-pittsburghs-south-side-evacuated-due-to-bomb-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/43976\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Eagle store on Pittsburgh&#8217;s South Side evacuated due to bomb threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Police are investigating a bomb threat that was called into the Giant Eagle store on the city&#8217;s South Side on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Police said an anonymous call was made to 911 around 8:15 p.m. on Monday night, stating that there was a bomb at the Giant Eagle store along Wharton Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s bomb squad responded to the store with explosive-sniffing dogs doing a search both inside and outside of the store, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ed673e0e-574b-4f4e-9f4c-24e4da9d0f08.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"ed673e0e-574b-4f4e-9f4c-24e4da9d0f08.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Pittsburgh Police are investigating after a bomb threat was called into the Giant Eagle store along Wharton Street on the city&#8217;s South Side.Approximately 50 people were evacuated from the store while explosive-sniffing dogs were brought in to search the area.<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Photojournalist Brian Smithmyer<\/p>\n<p>Police said the &#8216;all clear&#8217; was given just before 10 p.m. and that around 40 to 50 people were evacuated from the store as a precaution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Giant Eagle said the store was scheduled to close at 9 p.m. and the company plans to reopen the store Tuesday morning as scheduled.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Police are investigating a bomb threat that was called into the Giant Eagle store on the city&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24800,13074,73,75,74,745],"class_list":["post-43976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-bomb-threat","tag-giant-eagle","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43976","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=43976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}