Bomb Threat Forces Evacuation at Bakersfield College
In a phone call received by Bakersfield Police on Wednesday afternoon, a bomb threat was made against Bakersfield College’s Panorama Campus. An emergency alert was issued through the school’s system of text messages and emails urging students and teachers alike to grab their belongings and evacuate the school in a calm manner. After a little over an hour of searching from the schools emergency operations team, an ” all clear” was given and students were aloud to return to campus for their classes though one school official said low attendance was expected. No suspects have been named at this time, but many are fast to say it was the work of an unprepared test taker.
When comparing the safety of the Bakersfield College campus with the safety of Taft College’s campus, Taft college is remarkably safer. The safety of a campus is based by the number of incidents that fall under the categories of murder, manslaughter, robbery, force and non force sexual assault, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft and arson. From 2011-2013, Bakersfield College’s east Bakersfield Campus had 70 incidents compared to Taft College’s 7 incidents. This may be one reason that Taft College continues to grow in size as well as number of students.