Chris Dillmann, The Vail Daily
A fake bomb threat in Minturn closed U.S. Highway 24 for around four hours Saturday night. People in Minturn were ordered stay where were, ‘or “shelter in place,” while investigators sorted it all out.
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Chris Dillmann, The Vail Daily
A fake bomb threat in Minturn closed U.S. Highway 24 for around four hours Saturday night. People in Minturn were ordered stay where were, 'or "shelter in place," while investigators sorted it all out.MINTURN — A fake bomb threat closed U.S. Highway 24 for more than four hours Saturday night.
The caller phoned the threat to dispatchers Saturday night, saying a bomb had been planted on the bridge on Cemetery Road leading to Little Beach Park in Minturn.
There wasn’t a bomb there, the Eagle County Sheriff’s Office said.
People in Minturn were never in an any danger, and it remains that way, the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
Minturn residents received an order from local law enforcement to “shelter in place,” stay in their homes or wherever they were at the time, while local law enforcement officials and first responders sorted it all out.
U.S. Highway 24 was closed during much of that time.
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