Phony Bomb Threat in Orange Causes Workers to Leave Offices
A telephoned bomb threat prompted the evacuation of several workers at an office building in Orange Thursday, but police said no explosive devices were found.
Orange Police Sgt. Ed Tunstall said someone called Ford Motor Credit about 3 p.m. and said a bomb would explode in five minutes.
Police were notified as businesses in the building at 625 City Drive South urged their employees to evacuate until the threat could be investigated, Tunstall said.
Unknown Number Evacuated
He said officers did not order people out of the building and that he did not know how many actually evacuated, nor for how long.
Investigators checked a package that Ford Motor workers thought was suspicious because the address was handwritten instead of typed, as is most of the company’s mail.
But “after an hour from the call, and it (a bomb) still hadn’t gone off, the threat was deemed a fake,” Tunstall said.
He said he did not know if Ford Motor Credit was the intended target or why.
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