Tamura Elementary School in Fountain Valley evacuated

Monday, September 15, 2014
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. (KABC) -- Tamura Elementary School in Fountain Valley was evacuated Monday after a custodian found a Ziploc bag containing a PVC pipe that had caps on the ends.

Police and a bomb squad responded to the scene after being notified by the school at 7:14 a.m. A robot was deployed to inspect the object.

A robot is deployed to inspect a suspicious package at Tamura Elementary School in Fountain Valley on Monday, Sept. 15, 2014.



The "device" turned out to be a homemade GoPro camera extension left by accident by a kid over weekend, police said.

Officers checked the rest of the campus and gave an "all clear" at 9:39 a.m. School was dismissed for the day.



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