D.C. police were called in to investigate a bomb threat at Allbritton’s WJLA earlier this week.
Around noon on Monday, news quickly spread through the station that someone had called the front desk saying that there was a bomb in the office.
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While one reporter panicked, most staffers laughed it off, according to FishbowlDC.
“Our news desk knew about it and were not worried and kinda laughed it off,” a WJLA employee told TVSpy sister site FishbowlDC. “This reporter stood outside for awhile until she got bored. No one else evacuated. The police came and investigated the place. Not a big deal at all. Just kinda funny.”
After searching the premises with special equipment and bomb-sniffing dogs, police concluded that there was no bomb.