{
  "id": "2024-10-24-longwood-university-moss-hall-bomb-threat",
  "slug": "longwood-university-moss-hall-bomb-threat-2024-10-24",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Longwood University",
    "shortName": "Longwood",
    "state": "VA",
    "type": "public-masters",
    "alertSystemName": "Longwood Alerts / LUPD",
    "enrollment": 5000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2024-10-24",
    "type": "bomb-threat",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "confirmed-hoax",
    "headline": "Bomb threat in Moss Hall with leave-building instruction",
    "headlinePublic": "Bomb threat in Moss Hall with leave-building instruction",
    "summary": "Longwood [issued an alert that LUPD was responding to a bomb threat in Moss Hall](https://www.getrave.com/rss/longwood/channel1).",
    "outcome": "Moss Hall re-opened; students may return to their rooms. Official all-clear preserved the wording \"situation is Moss Hall is resolved\"."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2024-10-24T17:18:16-04:00",
      "channel": "sms",
      "verbatimText": "Alert: LUPD is responding to a report of a bomb threat in Moss Hall. If you are in Moss Hall, please leave the building and await instructions.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.getrave.com/rss/longwood/channel1",
      "sourceDescription": "Longwood Alerts Rave RSS (longwood/channel1)",
      "annotations": [
        "Dual independent fetch of official Rave RSS 2026-08-10. SPN 523.",
        "pubDate 2024-10-24T21:18:16Z; EDT applied.",
        "Thread checked N/A (RSS single product). Distinct incident from 2026-03-13-longwood-university-greenwood-library-bomb-threat: different building and date.",
        "Distinct incident from 2024-10-14-longwood-university-grainger-hall-bomb-threat: different building and date.",
        "Distinct incident from 2026-03-13-longwood-university-greenwood-library-bomb-threat: different building and year."
      ],
      "characterCount": 143
    },
    {
      "sequence": 2,
      "type": "all-clear",
      "timestamp": "2024-10-24T17:34:58-04:00",
      "channel": "website",
      "verbatimText": "Notice: The bomb threat situation is Moss Hall is resolved and the building re-opened. Students may return to their rooms.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://alerts.longwood.edu/10-24-all-clear-bomb/",
      "sourceDescription": "Longwood Alerts archive: Moss Hall bomb threat all-clear",
      "annotations": [
        "SHELF NIGHT b38 sequence-completion. Dual independent WP REST fetch 2026-08-24. sha256 ddd93e3d6d8ef5faf1b82608f71a3f719d34bf562ba36f46e96dabc368716307. Official wording 'situation is Moss Hall is resolved' preserved.",
        "WP date 2024-10-24T17:34:58. First-burst already in consensus; not recoded."
      ],
      "characterCount": 122
    }
  ],
  "context": "Longwood issues alert products via Rave; public RSS at [getrave.com/rss/longwood/channel1](https://www.getrave.com/rss/longwood/channel1).",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Building-specific bomb threat with leave-building and await-instructions guidance.",
    "Archive all-clear: building re-opened and students may return to their rooms."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Longwood Alerts Rave RSS Moss Hall",
      "url": "https://www.getrave.com/rss/longwood/channel1",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-08-10",
      "archiveUrl": null,
      "archiveNotes": "SPN 523 at capture; archive.org save endpoint unavailable or throttled"
    },
    {
      "title": "Longwood Alerts: Moss Hall bomb threat all-clear",
      "url": "https://alerts.longwood.edu/10-24-all-clear-bomb/",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-08-24",
      "archiveUrl": null,
      "archiveNotes": "SPN 523; TLS certificate expired"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "public-masters",
    "virginia",
    "longwood",
    "bomb-threat",
    "moss-hall"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-08-10",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-24",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}