Bomb Threat At Children's Hospital Deemed Swatting Incident: Police

ST. PETERSBURG, FL — A children’s hospital in St. Petersburg was shut down for several hours on Sunday due to a bomb threat, according to police.

Law enforcement received a call shortly before 11 a.m. about the threat, targeting Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in the 500 block of Sixth Avenue South, police said.

A K-9 swept the building and found nothing, according to police.

“It was clearly a swatting call,” Ashley Limardo, public information specialist for the St. Petersburg Police Department, told Patch, adding that the incident is under investigation.

The hospital shut down as a precaution but had reopened as of around 4 p.m., Limardo said.