{"id":39588,"date":"2022-07-07T21:10:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T03:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fort-lewis-college-clears-bomb-threat-campus-reopens\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:50:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:50:41","slug":"fort-lewis-college-clears-bomb-threat-campus-reopens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fort-lewis-college-clears-bomb-threat-campus-reopens\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lewis College clears bomb threat; campus reopens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e863e327-c9ea-4f0c-bf5c-241391d14bac&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1972\" height=\"967\" alt=\"Fort Lewis College announced $1.85 million in cuts from its $48.6 million general fund budget Monday.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Fort Lewis College announced $1.85 million in cuts from its $48.6 million general fund budget Monday.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Fort Lewis College<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Fort Lewis College closed its campus Thursday afternoon after an unidentified person made a bomb threat directed toward the Art Building on campus.<\/p>\n<p>The threat was reported about 2:45 p.m. and was cleared about 4:20 p.m., said Lauren Pope, spokeswoman for the college. Police and firefighters found no evidence of a bomb, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The campus was closed \u201cout of an abundance of caution,\u201d according to a tweet sent by the college. A follow-up tweet and Facebook post advised people to evacuate the campus.<\/p>\n\n<p>Pope said the Art Building remained closed Thursday night but will reopen Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>She said it was an unidentified person who called the 911 dispatch center and made the threat.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lewis College Police Department, Durango Police Department and Durango Fire Protection District responded to the call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll threats are taken serious,\u201d Pope said. \u201cWe have great partners in Durango PD and Durango fire to rapidly respond for the safety of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-f0a9fa44be10d1833d56db96594a1909\"><a href=\"mailto:shane@durangoherald.com\">shane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and asked people to evacuate \u2018out of an abundance of caution\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[132,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-39588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-fort-lewis-college","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84377,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39588\/revisions\/84377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39588"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=39588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}