Students and staff evacuated a Coweta County high school Thursday after someone called in a bomb threat.
🚨 What Happened: School Resource Officers and firefighters swept Northgate High School on October 2nd after the threat came in. Every hallway, every classroom, every locker bay got checked. The building came up clean. Students are safe, and the school has been cleared.
🔍 What’s Next: Investigators are working with federal partners to trace where the threat originated. The Coweta County School System notified parents after the evacuation.
🔐 Between the Lines: The response involved coordination between the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office, Coweta County Fire Rescue, and school officials.
The Sources:
Coweta County Sheriff’s Office.
B.T. Clark
B.T. Clark is an award-winning journalist and the Publisher of The Georgia Sun. He has 25 years of experience in journalism and served as Managing Editor of Neighbor Newspapers in metro Atlanta for 15 years and Digital Director at Times-Journal Inc. for 8 years. His work has appeared in several newspapers throughout the state including Neighbor Newspapers, The Cherokee Tribune and The Marietta Daily Journal. He is a Georgia native and a fifth-generation Georgian.
