Students Evacuated in Hand-Grenade Scare

Students at Eagle Rock High School were evacuated for 40 minutes Wednesday after bomb squad officers were called to investigate a fake hand grenade brought to school by a 15-year-old student, authorities said. The grenade contained ground-up charcoal.

School authorities summoned police to the campus at 1750 Yosemite Drive after a metal shop teacher saw the student and a friend carrying the device, said Eagle Rock Principal John Anderson. The boys told school officials that it was fake.

More than 2,200 students and teachers waited outside the school while investigators took the grenade to nearby Yosemite Park and determined it was not live, he said. The students were being questioned late Wednesday at the Police Department’s Northeast Division station, said Detective Ed Brimmer. School administrators are recommending that they be expelled, Anderson said.