{"id":883266,"date":"2026-10-15T14:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/883266\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T14:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:44:19","slug":"police-respond-to-bomb-threat-at-billerica-memorial-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/883266\/","title":{"rendered":"Police respond to bomb threat at Billerica Memorial High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792075459_864_e52836a8-4d06-4bc7-982a-40ad4944b1a4_1690409286.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Jamy Pombo Sesselman\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Senior Digital Editor\/Producer, WCVB.com<\/p>\n<p>BILLERICA, Mass. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Police responded early Thursday to a bomb threat at Billerica Memorial High School in Billerica, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Police said the threat was called into the school at 6:15 a.m. The threat was made before any students had entered the building. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">As students arrived at the school, they were brought to a field on school property under the supervision of staff, police said<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">A NEMLEC K-9 Unit assisted police with sweeping the school building to ensure the building was safe for students to enter.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">&#8220;The Billerica Police Department is investigating the source of the threat and will update the public as pertinent information becomes available,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Students have returned to class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior Digital Editor\/Producer, WCVB.com BILLERICA, Mass. \u2014 Police responded early Thursday to a bomb threat at Billerica Memorial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17862,137747,370765,370766,28972,4,450,26096,170981,127912,7124,451,370769,2001,370767,3,1583,3858,7125,11363,14488,370768,452,453,28123],"class_list":["post-883266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-a-m","tag-billerica","tag-billerica-memorial-high-school","tag-billerica-police-department","tag-bomb-threat","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-building","tag-community-member","tag-early-thursday","tag-faculty","tag-headlines","tag-high-school-faculty","tag-massachusetts","tag-nemlec-k-9-unit","tag-news","tag-police","tag-school","tag-staff","tag-student","tag-students","tag-supervision","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-wcvb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}