False alarm leads to police swarming West Valley City elementary school over shots fired

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah — Police evacuated a West Valley City school on Monday after a false alarm led to reports of shots possibly being fired. However, officials later said a shooting had not taken place and there was no danger.

Officers from multiple agencies responded to Granger Elementary School at 3700 South 1950 West and cleared the building out of precaution. About an hour after officers first responded, the Granite School District said the false alarm was reported by a teacher who thought they heard shots fired, which were instead loud noises from a science experiment in another classroom.Parents were originally told to pick up their children at the nearby Redwood Swap Meet, but the district said students would be allowed back inside the school and classes would proceed.

Great, the police seemed prepared for the incident. But should they have to be? Route problem solving should make your kids feel safer than police responding quickly. IE: GUN CONTROL T’F

Was it a prank or was there something they mistook for a gunshot?

I have two children in school one in elementary and one in Jr high I happen to be driving near 3500 and redwood Rd as the officers were responding, the amount of police that were arriving on scene made me feel a lot better about my kids being in school

Wonder what kind of science experiment it was.

UPDATE Police report no shooting has taken place at Granger Elementary. We're LIVE at the scene with the latest information:

It’s clear. No children hurt! 🙂

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Granger Elementary: Police confirm no shooting at West Valley City schoolPolice confirmed Monday that there was no shooting at Granger Elementary, after online rumors spread that a gun had been fired inside the West Valley City school and panicked parents rushed to the scene. I was driving in the area and pulled over as all the police vehicles drove towards the scene. 😨 What about the other 300 schools in the valley? So the teacher who made the call that freaked out half the valley has no idea what a gunshot sounds like. The same kind of person calls the police on people with umbrellas because they think they are guns.
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