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Bomb Threat on New Years Day at Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel

1/1/2014

 
Action News 5 - Memphis, Tennessee
MEMPHIS, TN - 

(WMC-TV) – Many visitors flock to Graceland for the holidays, but on Wednesday there was a major bomb scare that evacuated those in the Heartbreak Hotel.

During a busy time for tourism in Memphis, guests at the Heartbreak hotel were literally put out Wednesday morning while a bomb sniffing police dog searched every room. 

Down at the end of lonely street on New Year's Day it wasn't Elvis who left the building, it was dozens of hotel guests.

Guest Jaclyn Haggerty said, "We didn't know what was going on, but eventually they told us that there was a bomb threat."

Memphis police and fire surrounded the Heartbreak Hotel after a bomb threat was called in around 9:30 New Year's Day morning and everyone had to evacuate. 

"Just a general threat about a bomb no specifics about where," said Memphis Police Lt. Col. Mickey Williams.


Graceland provided warm shuttle buses while the building was searched from top to bottom and for a time guests' imaginations ran wild.

Hotel guest Earn Haggerty said, "Whoever tried to bomb the hotel, probably didn't like Elvis."

In the end, it was all a hoax. 

"We found no device, no indication of a device," said Lt. Col. Williams.


After two hours, everyone was allowed back into their rooms. 

Tourists were inconvenienced, but have a unique Elvis story to share with folks back home. 

Police say it is the hotel's policy to evacuate and the evacuation was underway before first responders even got to the scene.


source: http://www.wmctv.com - WMCTV

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