Bomb Threat Prompts Evacuation of Calif. School 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. 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.