New York Daily News

3 days of bomb threats at HS

- Thomas Tracy and Michael Elsen-Rooney

Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn has gotten three days of bomb threats, causing confusion at the 5,000-student high school and attracting the attention of federal law enforcemen­t, authoritie­s said Wednesday.

The first threat, called in just before 11 a.m. on Monday, forced police to evacuate the school for two hours to conduct a search, which turned up nothing, according to City Councilman Justin Brannan (D-Brooklyn).

Another threat was phoned in Tuesday morning, prompting cops to evacuate the Bay Ridge school once again, Brannan said.

“This is out of control and unacceptab­le. We must identify, arrest & prosecute whoever is making these calls,” he wrote Tuesday on Twitter.

But yet another threat came in early Wednesday morning, Brannan said, when an anonymous caller rang up the school secretary and said, “Dropping a bomb.”

Brannan said NYPD officers were already at the school when the threat came in and were working on tracing the calls.

The school was not evacuated, but cops swept the building with a bomb-sniffing dog, and school safety agents scanned students on the way in, according to police and the school.

Police were looking into the possibilit­y of copycat callers, Brannan said.

He added that the New York FBI office is involved.

Brannan tweeted, “3 days in a row?! This is embarrassi­ng and more importantl­y traumatizi­ng for our kids. It’s not acceptable.”

Education Department spokeswoma­n Jenna Lyle said that the “NYPD is investigat­ing these threats. We take every security-related incident seriously to ensure the continued safety of our students and staff. We are supporting the NYPD on their investigat­ion of these incidents and will urgently work to identify the individual responsibl­e.”

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