Tamura Elementary School in Fountain Valley was evacuated this morning after a janitor found a Ziploc bag with PVC pipe inside.
]
The school at 17340 Santa Suzanne St., Fountain Valley, was evacuated just before 7:15 a.m., and the Orange County Sheriff's Department bomb squad was called out to investigate the bag near a bench on a school lawn, where a robotic device was later seen examining the contents.
But an “all-clear” declaration went out at 9:30 a.m., and the school resumed normal operations.
So what was in the bag? An extension for a GoPro camera that skateboarders doing tricks at the school over the weekend had unwittingly left behind.
Email: mc****@oc******.com. Twitter: @MatthewTCoker. Follow OC Weekly on Twitter @ocweekly or on Facebook!
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.