Bomb threat clears elementary school

An elementary school in San Francisco’s Ingleside Heights neighborhood has been evacuated this morning because of a bomb threat, police said.

Jose Ortega Elementary School at 400 Sargent St. was evacuated as a result of a bomb threat found on a note on campus and reported at 7:38 a.m., according to police spokeswoman Officer Grace Gatpandan.

Students have been told to go home with their parents and the Police Department’s bomb squad responded to the campus, Gatpandan said.

No other information about the incident was immediately available this morning.