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Pitt receives bomb threat in Chevron Science Center

Updated 5:45 p.m.

Pitt sent out an Emergency Notification Service… Updated 6:01 p.m.

Pitt sent out an Emergency Notification Service alert for a bomb threat in Chevron Science Center just after 5 p.m., urging everyone to evacuate the building.

Emergency responders and the city’s bomb squad are currently at Chevron Science Center and searching the building with K-9 units. The building, on Pitt’s upper campus, is on the 200 block of Parkman Street in Oakland.

Pitt spokesman John Fedele said that the University sent out the alert after a Pitt employee found a message in a Chevron Hall bathroom that stated a bomb would go off in the building at 8:30 p.m.

Check out pittnews.com and twitter.com/thepittnews for ongoing updates.

A previous version of this story misidentified Chevron Science Center.

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