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Published on 01/19/1998 All articles from this issue

Sears evacuated following bomb threat

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By Joanne Griffith Domingue / Town Crier Staff Writer

After receiving a bomb threat, the Mountain View Sears Roebuck store at El Camino Real and San Antonio Road was evacuated about 6:15 p.m. on Jan. 20.

Through its central telephone system, a call came in to a Sears answering center in Colorado, with a man reporting a bomb in the Mountain View Store, said Julie Rand, a department spokeswoman with the Mountain View Police Department.

"Nobody knows where the call originated," Rand said.

The store was evacuated and the police responded.

"We don't tell people to evacuate or not," Rand said. That is a store decision.

After a building search, nothing was found, Rand said. The police took a report. The only description available is that it was a male caller.

"We were aware of the evacuation after the fact," said Bob Zugar, manager of Sears Automotive, which is in a separate building. "Somebody went to go into the store and the door was locked," he said. Then later the store opened again.

No one in the security or management offices at Sears would comment on the evacuation.