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SWAT Dispatched To Bailey School Situation
Platte Canyon High School Evacuated After Threat
POSTED: 12:12 pm MDT September 27, 2006
UPDATED: 1:35 pm MDT September 27, 2006
BAILELY, Colo. -- A possible hostage situation was reported just aftern noon at Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, about 40 miles southwest of Denver.
The situation was still ongoing more than an hour later.
U.S. Highway 285, which runs in front of the school, was closed in that area.
Students at the school were evacuated from the building as well as students at Fitzsimmons Middle School, which is next door. Both schools are about four miles west of Bailey.
The evacuations came after a loud noise, said Jan Howard, a secretary to the superintendent of schools.
"I don't know what the noise was," she said.
As a precaution, nearby Jefferson County schools were also locked down in the Conifer area. Schools in Fairplay, Colo., about 30 miles away, were also locked down as a precaution.
Parents of students from Platte Canyon and Fitzsimons were asked to go to the Park County Sheriff's sub-station in Bailey.
A Park County sheriff's dispatcher told 7News they had a report of an adult inside the high school who was reported to have a backpack with a bomb. They also said he several hostages.
One hostage was released, said Lance Clem, spokesman for the Colorado Department of Public Safety.
The Jefferson County SWAT team was called to the school to aid Park County Sheriff's deputies.
Platte Canyon High School has 467 students enrolled during the 2005-2006 school year, according to its Web site.
Fitzsimmons Middle School has about 350 students.