No devices found on Rogue Community College campuses

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — No suspicious devices were found on the Rogue Community College campuses but the investigation is ongoing, according to Medford Police.

Students and staff were told to evacuate Rogue Community College campuses in Grants Pass, Medford and White City after a bomb threat and a potential shooter were reported for the Redwood Campus in Grants Pass.

Classes have been canceled for the rest of the day.

School spokesman Grant Walker told The Medford Mail Tribune that the threat was received at 10 a.m. School officials then activated an emergency alert system that sends texts and emails to staff and students who have signed up. A message posted to Twitter by the school’s account at 10:22 a.m. advised people to leave the Grants Pass campus immediately. The notification for the Medford campus went out at 10:40 a.m. and by 10:43 a.m. school officials said all campuses were being evacuated as a precaution.

“It seemed to go very smoothly,” RCC vice president of instruction Kirk Gibson said of the evacuations. “Always we can find ways to be better, but I think overall this went pretty smoothly.”

The bomb threat came four days after nine people were killed on the Upmqua Community College campus outside Roseburg, Ore.

The school is about 80 miles south of Roseburg.

Rogue Community College has campuses campuses in Grants Pass, Medford and White City, Ore. The campus in Medford is known as the Riverside Campus, and the campus in White City is the Table Rock Campus.

Multiple Oregon schools have responded to threats since Thursday’s deadly mass shooting.