{"id":730,"date":"2025-10-15T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/730\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T04:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T04:00:10","slug":"swatting-incident-at-upper-darby-high-school-prompts-emergency-evacuation-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/730\/","title":{"rendered":"Swatting incident at Upper Darby High School prompts emergency evacuation: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/77CAFA3675AA305BF9421C465B76AF76.jpg\" alt=\"Swatting incident at Upper Darby High School under investigation\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">UPPER DARBY TWP., Pa. &#8211; An active investigation is underway at Upper Darby High School after police say a threat to the school prompted an emergency evacuation Friday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">At around dismissal time, Upper Darby High School was placed in an emergency evacuation due to an anonymous tip of a threat to the school.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Students and staff members were dismissed as emergency responders arrived at the scene to investigate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vlcsnap-2025-09-19-15h45m00s113.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Due to the emergency evacuation, Springfield School District requested to reschedule the football game slated for Friday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">As of 3:30 p.m., Upper Darby police say\u00a0that there is no active threat to students, staff, or the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story is from The Upper Darby Police Department and Upper Darby School District.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER DARBY TWP., Pa. &#8211; An active investigation is underway at Upper Darby High School after police say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[592,139,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","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=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}