![]() “And just the fact that you hope that everything is under control until you get to your child. “You got to get here and then it seems like you drive behind the slowest people on the ride here,” she said. Toccara Buntley, the mother of the third grader, described her emotions while driving to the school to pick up her child. “My friend was helping me out because I was really scared and I didn’t know what to do while I was sitting there, so I started taking deep breaths and I started to calm down until my mom got there,” said Lauren Buntley, 3rd grader. The students say they didn’t have too much information initially about the threat.Īdriana Burgio, 8th grader, “We all were just like calling our parents and texting everyone in our family to make sure we were all okay.”Īnd helping each other calm down while their parents raced to be with them. There’s kids everywhere, there’s parents everywhere, someone’s looking for their kids, we’re looking for teachers, so it’s chaotic. They were told they needed to come pick up their children because of the threat, and almost immediately the roads surrounding all of the schools in Hilton were jammed.Ĭaitlyn Burgio, mother of 8th grader said, “One of our worst fears, I was crying the whole way here. Parents got a robocall from the district around 9:30 a.m. There were the Rochester Police Department’s bomb-sniffing dogs at the school. News10NBC saw students at Northwood Elementary School lined up outside as they waited for parents to pick them up. “Remain calm, pick up your children, and take them home,” he said. Rojas emphasized that parents should remain calm because the children are safe. The district is asking parents to report to their children’s schools to pick them up. The school will not resume classes on Wednesday. We just want to make sure that the buildings are safe for them to return,” Rojas said. “We want to ensure the community that there is no danger right now. After the evacuation, deputies swept the school for explosives using dogs. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) of New York are helping with the investigation. Students were kept outside the schools, either in buses or in lines, while deputies continued their investigation into the threat. to local news outlets saying that pipe bombs were placed in all Hilton schools, the district office, and the superintendent’s house. No bombs have been found and all children are safe, says Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Captain Pat Rojas.ĭeputies responded after they learned that an email was sent around 8:30 a.m. – All is quiet on Wednesday night and back to a sense of normalcy at the schools in Hilton, including here at Northwood and while we now know, that there was no truth to the threat against them, that wasn’t the case this morning.Īll schools in the Hilton Central School District were evacuated on Wednesday after receiving a bomb threat.
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