Home for mentally handicapped evacuated by bomb threat
An Atlanta home for the mentally handicapped was evacuated Tuesday morning following a bomb threat.
The incident happened around 8:30 a.m. at O’Hern House, which serves 76 individuals with psychiatric disabilities, according to Jean Toole, CEO of Community Friendship Inc., the organization that runs the home.
Toole told the AJC that the call was made to the front desk at the facility on William Holmes Borders Sr. Drive in the Auburn Avenue district just east of downtown.
“They said there was a bomb in the building,” Toole said.
The residents were evacuated until the “all-clear” was sounded about an hour later. No bomb was found.
“It’s unsettling to start your day with a bomb threat,” Toole said. “It’s hard getting people to believe that it’s serious, that it’s not just a drill.”
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