On the evening of February 17, 2021, Azusa Pacific University received an emailed bomb threat around 4 p.m. PST claiming explosives were placed on campus. The university announced an evacuation publicly around 5:40 p.m. PST and told on-campus residential students to shelter in place, later extending the evacuation to its regional campuses including Monrovia, Orange County, Koreatown, Inland Empire, High Desert, Murrieta and San Diego. Officers searched every building and found nothing suspicious; the threat was cleared around 10:40 p.m. PST.
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Campus Alert Archive. "Azusa Pacific University: Emailed bomb threat evacuates main and regional campuses; no explosives found." Incident of February 17, 2021. Added May 2026; last updated October 2026. https://campusalertarchive.com/case/azusa-pacific-university-bomb-threat-2021-02-17/
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