Danbury Schools Shelter In Place Following 'Non-Credible' Bomb Threat

DANBURY, CT — A shelter-in-place order for Danbury schools was lifted at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, after town officials found no credible threat.

A message sent to parents early Thursday said that "multiple threats" were made to buildings and businesses across the city.

"We are placing all schools in shelter-in-place while we gather additional information about the nature of these threats," the alert to parents and staff said.

In a noon post to social media, Mayor Roberto Alves reported that the "Danbury Police Department along with state and federal agencies confirmed the threats were not credible."

Stadley Rough, Hayestown and Great Plain Schools temporarily went into shelter in place on Wednesday, following similar threats. But after Danbury police officers began conducting sweeps of the schools, "it was quickly determined that the threat was not credible," according to a statement from the DPD.

The non-credible threats in the Danbury schools follow nearly a week of similar "swatting" incidents in the Brookfield Public Schools.

"Authorities believe that these threats are simply restatements of the previous threats by individuals that are trying to gain notoriety by sending them," Brookfield town officials said in an email Thursday, after the schools had fielded threats every day since last Friday.