A device made to look like a bomb shut down a portion of Visalia Industrial Park and Denton Elementary School during one of its busiest days of the new school year.
Roads and businesses in the area were evacuated in the triple-digit heat for more than an hour as police investigated the 'suspicious' device.
Someone called in a 'suspicious' device just after 1 p.m. in the area of Ferguson Avenue and Shirk Road, in northwest Visalia. The device was laying out in the wide open near Sunnyview Avenue and Shirk, police said.
Visalia Fire Department has a station there, as well as Tulare County Office of Education's main building and dozens of smaller businesses and large manufacturers.
Roads in the area were blocked and firefighters, police and bomb squad technicians were on scene trying to determine what type of device was found. At one point, semi-trucks lined the roads in the area as they waited for police to clear the scene.
The device was detonated safely, police said and never exploded.
Denton school was shut down, but reopened around 2:30 p.m. to distribute Chromebooks for students heading back to school Thursday. Police said they didn't see a threat to the parents, students or staff.
Police say they're still investigating to determine who may have planted the device and why. It doesn't appear to have anything to do with the school.
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