PHOENIX — Students at Boulder Creek High School were evacuated to the football field Thursday afternoon after a "possible" bomb threat, the Deer Valley Unified School District said in a tweet.
The school was put on lockdown while Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies completed a search of the campus for a suspicious package following a phone call into MCSO dispatch, the district said.
No package was located.
"MCSO takes these calls seriously to ensure the safety of the students, staff, and community and will thoroughly investigate to try to determine the source of the call," the district said.
Boulder Creek High is located in Anthem in North Phoneix near Interstate 17 and W Daisy Mountain Drive.
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