Sheriff's Office responds to bomb threat

No bomb found, Head Start program canceled Thursday

MOSES LAKE —The Grant County Sheriff's Office and Grant County Fire District No. 5 responded to a bomb threat Thursday morning at the Head Start program on East Craig Street in Moses Lake.

A 911 call was made early Thursday morning before the Head Start program began after a teacher in the building received a phone call from what sounded like a male caller.

The caller advised the teacher of a bomb he said was to be inside her classroom.

The teacher then notified the school's director and the building was evacuated.

In a statement released by GCSO, there were few students at the school at the time of the call and bus drivers who had yet to arrive to the school were contacted in the field and told to return students home.

The school canceled all activities for the day on Thursday. All programs including Head Start resumed today.

One hundred and sixteen students are enrolled in the Head Start program.

The statement also reported that an explosive detecting dog from the Grand Coulee Police Department arrived on scene an hour after law enforcement responded to the incident.

The dog found no sign of an explosives device and the school was cleared and staff allowed access back into the building.

Denise Schmidt, home based services coordinator with Family Services of Grant County, who is also housed in the same building as Head Start, said it is still unknown as to who made the call.