Terry Richards | The Valdosta Daily TimesStudents waited outside W.G. Nunn Elementary School in Valdosta Wednesday as authorities investigated a bomb threat.

VALDOSTA — An elementary school in Valdosta was given the “all-clear” after being evacuated because of a bomb threat Wednesday morning.

“Nothing was found as a threat on campus; however, the safety of our students, faculty and staff is always the first priority,” said Jennifer Steedley, spokeswoman for the Valdosta school system, in a prepared statement. 

The threat was delivered to W.G. Nunn Elementary School on Lakeland Avenue around 7:45 a.m., the statement said.

As soon as the threat was received, authorities were alerted and brought on scene. All students were evacuated until the completion of the sweep and were accounted for, the school said.

Personnel from Moody Air Force Base were sent to the school, according to Steedley. In the past, airmen and bomb-sniffing dogs from the base have assisted with bomb threats at local schools.

At 10:45 a.m., parents and other family members were gathering around a stop sign across the road from the school, waiting for word as police and other emergency personnel worked. Children could be seen filling the yards outside the school buildings.

Kusheka Jackson, who has nieces and nephews in the school, was on the scene. She said she had been there since 8 a.m. after neighbors told her about the bomb threat after reading about it on Facebook.

“I saw the police go in and the (Moody AFB)

people go in with a bomb dog,” she said.

Another woman in the crowd said she hadn’t been contacted by the school system via smartphone until 10 a.m.

At 12:05 p.m., the all-clear was sounded, a school system statement said.

“Valdosta City Schools takes all threats very seriously. Each will be thoroughly investigated as the safety of our students, faculty and staff is always the first priority,” the school system’s statement said.

Terry Richards is senior reporter at The Valdosta Daily Times.