LIHUE – A bomb threat on Tuesday afternoon closed the Kauai Medical Clinic for nearly half an hour while law enforcement officials investigated the incident. Kauai Police Department spokeswoman Sarah Blane said officers responded to a bomb threat about 12:30
LIHUE – A bomb threat on Tuesday afternoon closed the Kauai Medical Clinic for nearly half an hour while law enforcement officials investigated the incident.
Kauai Police Department spokeswoman Sarah Blane said officers responded to a bomb threat about 12:30 p.m. after medical staff in the clinic’s gastroenterology department reported that an unknown female caller said a bomb would detonate.
“Per normal clinic protocol, whenever a bomb threat is received, the building was evacuated while the police did a sweep of the entire building,” Kauai Medical Clinic spokeswoman Katie Gallo said.
About 100 people, she said, were evacuated from the building by security staff.
Responding law enforcement officers later secured and cleared the scene, Blane said.
“The search took 30 minutes and uncovered no bomb,” Gallo said. “After the ‘all clear’ was issued by the police, people were allowed to re-enter the clinic.”
KPD confirmed that no suspicious packages or objects were located.
The medical staff and patients were allowed to return to the Kauai Medical Clinic offices around 1 p.m. The identity of the bomb threat caller was not known as of press time on Tuesday.
