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Three Bomb Threats in Six Days: LCCC's Spring of Evacuations

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Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio, evacuated its campus on the morning of March 29, 2022, after its third bomb threat in six days. The threat arrived around 9 a.m. through the college's online student chat portal, and Elyria police conducted a building-by-building sweep that found no devices. The wave continued into April, with a fourth threat closing all LCCC campuses on April 19.

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Institution
Lorain County Community College
Community College · OH
~10,000 studentsLCCC Alert
Confirmed Timeline

Alert Sequence

2 messages in sequence

Some alert texts below are approximate reconstructions from news coverage, not confirmed verbatim transcripts. Reconstructed texts are shown in italic with a dashed border. Verified verbatim texts have a solid border and are marked accordingly.

INITIAL ALERTSMS
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LCCC Alert: Due to a reported threat, all campus buildings are being evacuated. Please leave immediately and do not return until an all-clear is given. Follow directions from public safety.

This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.

Reconstructed wording; the exact LCCC Alert text was not published, so this is marked unconfirmed.
Cleveland 19 reported the threat came in around 9 a.m. through the college's online student chat portal, an unusual delivery channel for a campus bomb threat.
ALL CLEARSMS
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LCCC Alert: Police have completed a search of all buildings and found no devices. The campus is cleared and operations are resuming. Thank you for your patience.

This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.

Reconstructed all-clear; the source confirmed only that Elyria police swept the campus and found nothing.
This was the third such all-clear in less than a week, underscoring the disruptive serial nature of the threats.
Context

Background

Lorain County Community College, the main public two-year institution west of Cleveland in Elyria, faced a cluster of bomb threats in spring 2022. The March 29 threat — its third in six days — arrived around 9 a.m. EDT via the college's online student chat portal and prompted a full evacuation while Elyria police searched building by building and found nothing. The pattern did not end there: Cleveland 19 News reported a fourth threat on April 19, 2022 that closed all LCCC campuses, making four threats in under a month. The episode mirrored the broader 2022 surge in bomb threats against U.S. colleges and illustrated the operational toll of repeated evacuations on an open-enrollment commuter campus.
Analysis

Key Findings

The March 29 threat was LCCC's third bomb threat in six days, arriving via the online student chat portal
Elyria police conducted a building-by-building sweep and found no devices
A fourth threat on April 19 closed all LCCC campuses, totaling four threats in under a month
Provenance

Sources

  1. News
    3rd bomb threat reported at Lorain County Community College - Cleveland 19 News
    cleveland19.com
  2. News
    Another bomb threat closes Lorain County Community College - Cleveland 19 News
    cleveland19.com
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Added May 2026Updated May 2026Via ingestion