Glendale firemen hold up elementary school children on the parking lot waiting to reunite with their parents after their school was evacuated for a bomb threat in Glendale, Calif., Monday, Jan. 7, 2013. The bomb threat prompted the evacuation of hundreds of children from R.D. White Elementary School on Monday while police searched buildings to make sure the campus was safe. An anonymous caller phoned the school at around 8:30 a.m., and said there was a bomb at the campus, according to police Sgt. Tom Lorenz. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Glendale firemen hold up elementary school children on the parking lot waiting to reunite with their parents after their school was evacuated for a bomb threat in Glendale, Calif., Monday, Jan. 7, 2013. The bomb threat prompted the evacuation of hundreds of children from R.D. White Elementary School on Monday while police searched buildings to make sure the campus was safe. An anonymous caller phoned the school at around 8:30 a.m., and said there was a bomb at the campus, according to police Sgt. Tom Lorenz. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
School administrators reunite elementary school children with their parents after their school was evacuated for a bomb threat in Glendale, Calif., Monday, Jan. 7, 2013. The bomb threat prompted the evacuation of hundreds of children from R.D. White Elementary School on Monday while police searched buildings to make sure the campus was safe. An anonymous caller phoned the school at around 8:30 a.m., and said there was a bomb at the campus, according to police Sgt. Tom Lorenz. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
A Glendale fireman talks to elementary school children as they wait to reunite with their parents after their school was evacuated for a bomb threat in Glendale, Calif., Monday, Jan. 7, 2013. The bomb threat prompted the evacuation of hundreds of children from R.D. White Elementary School on Monday while police searched buildings to make sure the campus was safe. An anonymous caller phoned the school at around 8:30 a.m., and said there was a bomb at the campus, according to police Sgt. Tom Lorenz. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Parent Klara Esposito consoles her 10-year-old son, Tony, while waiting to meet with her 7-year-old son, Daniel, after their school was evacuated for a bomb threat in Glendale, Calif., Monday, Jan. 7, 2013. The bomb threat prompted the evacuation of hundreds of children from R.D. White Elementary School on Monday while police searched buildings to make sure the campus was safe. An anonymous caller phoned the school at around 8:30 a.m., and said there was a bomb at the campus, according to police Sgt. Tom Lorenz. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) ? A bomb threat prompted the evacuation of hundreds of children from a Southern California elementary school Monday while police searched buildings to make sure the campus was safe.
An anonymous caller phoned the R.D. White Elementary School in Glendale at around 8:30 a.m. and said there was a bomb at the campus, police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said.
The school's 880 students were evacuated to a supermarket parking lot about a block away and parents were allowed to take them home for the day, Lorenz said. No bomb was found and the all-clear was given around midday.
Klara Esposito, who lives a block from the campus, received a call from the school and came to pick up her two children, 10-year-old Tony and 7-year-old Daniel.
"I mean after Connecticut, it was just too scary," she said, referring to last month's massacre by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. "I just ran here like a maniac."
"A few teachers told me it was all just a drill," her son Tony said. "And I was thinking if it was just a drill, why were there so many policemen and firemen and helicopters? I'm really scared."
Glendale is a foothill suburb of Los Angeles.
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