Activities will go on as normal this evening after classes in the Algona Community School District were canceled this morning by a bomb threat.
Administrators learned of the threat around 7 a.m. and immediately contacted local law enforcement. Superintendent Joe Carter addressed the situation around 9 a.m. “We worked with Chief Miller and the Algona Police Department and Sheriff Fisher, and we’ve been able to go through our our regular safety protocols and we can say our buildings are safe,” he says.
The Algona Police Department says a search was conducted by an officer and dog trained to detect explosive devices. The threat is believed to be automated and directed towards multiple school districts that begin with the letter “A”…