Bomb threat evacuates three buildings
Islip Town Hall in an undated photo. Credit: Erin Geismar
Islip Town Hall and two other buildings were evacuated briefly Wednesday after an anonymous caller made a bomb threat, Suffolk County police said.
Officers from Suffolk's emergency services team searched Town Hall, at 655 Main St., and "nothing was found," a police spokeswoman said.
The spokeswoman said police received an emergency call at 9:50 a.m. from a man using a pay phone at a restaurant indicating bombs would go off at 655 Main St. and another building, Suffolk County Social Services Department, on Wireless Boulevard in Hauppauge, the spokeswoman said.
Public safety officials for the town said about 75 people were evacuated from Town Hall shortly after 10 a.m. They returned at 10:45 a.m., after the search.
Suffolk emergency service subsequently searched the Social Services Department building and a nearby building after both were evacuated, the police spokeswoman said. An item was found, but it was not deemed a threat, she said.
Wednesday's false bomb threat is the second made to the Islip Town Hall address by an anonymous caller since Nov. 17.
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