SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — Investigators have released a hoax 911 call made Friday afternoon that forced the evacuations of several Seminole County public schools.
The FBI and Florida Department of Law Enforcement are still trying to track down the person responsible for a bomb threat that forced the schools to be evacuated.
The threats forced hundreds of elementary school students out into rainstorm Friday.
"Listen very closely," the caller told a 911 dispatcher. "We placed three bombs (inaudible) -- Winter Springs Elementary, Casselberry Elementary, Oviedo Elementary."
Because there is not such school as Oviedo Elementary, officials evacuated several other schools in the Oviedo area.
"There's three bombs and one is at each of the schools," the caller stated.
Detectives released the recording in hopes that someone will be able to recognize the caller's voice.
"We'll call you back with our demands," the caller said. But he did not call again. (listen to the call)
"I rushed home. It was raining, I was hysterical," parent Faith Clark, talking to Channel 9's Tim Barber about Friday.
Clark was one of the parents who scrambled to pick up children after someone called in a bomb threat to three schools, forcing deputies to evacuate several others.
"It was pouring down rain and these little tiny kids, kids in wheel chairs, babies are walking down Maitland Avenue -- that's a highway," said Clark."I was angry, because who would do that to little children? I mean, I was angry."
Investigators said whoever is responsible for the call faces charges of misuse of 911 and false report of a bomb, a felony charge that could mean a prison sentence of up to 15 years and a $10,000 fine.
The incident drained law enforcement resources as deputies and officers searched several schools across the district to make sure there was no threat.
"If you have more than one school, or even one school, we want to make sure that whoever does this gets the message that this is something that you don't play with or toy with," said WFTV legal analyst and former 9th Judicial Circuit Chief Judge Belvin Perry.
Fines could include the costs associated with the school evacuations. Investigators did not have an estimate on what Friday's incident cost, but Barber learned that when Lake Mary High School was evacuated last spring as the result of a shooting hoax, it cost more than $5,000.
Perry said he believes the punishment for whoever made the 911 call on Friday will be severe.
"Good, that's what they get," Clark said.
Agencies are offering a $10,000 reward for any information that leads to the arrest of the caller.
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