Pensacola police clear bomb threat at Pensacola State College

The Pensacola Police Department has given the all clear after investigating a bomb threat at Pensacola State College on Tuesday afternoon.

PPD spokesman Mike Wood told the News Journal that Escambia County Emergency Management received a call about a bomb threat in a PSC building.

PSC police were immediately notified and evacuated Building 15 on campus.

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The police department’s explosives detection K-9s cleared the building at approximately 3:40 p.m.

Ninth Avenue at Airport Boulevard was briefly closed as part of the investigation but has since reopened, according to the PPD.

Wood told the News Journal that the PPD will investigate the person who called in the tip.

This article originally appeared on Pensacola News Journal: Pensacola police cleared Pensacola State College bomb threat