A call threatening the White Salmon Valley School District on Wednesday afternoon led to a two-hour lockdown at all of the district’s buildings        

A statement Wednesday evening from the district said the call to the Klickitat County 911 Dispatch Center was determined to be a hoax, and similar automated calls were made regarding multiple schools in multiple counties across various states in the Pacific Northwest.

A statement by Klickitat County Sheriff Bob Songer did not classify the call as a hoax.

His statement outlined what led to the lockdown. 

Songer indicated the call from an unidentified male subject saying he was outside Columbia High School and was going to kill everyone he could was received by dispatch at 12:48 Wednesday afternoon.

The dispatcher reported she thought she could hear gunshots in the background of the call.

The school went into immediate lockdown with other district buildings, and law enforcement agencies searched the entire campus…noting no one at the school heard gunshots or observe any suspicious activity on school grounds.

The lockdown ended around 2;45 in the afternoon.