San Bernardino police closed off Sierra Way near Mill and Cluster streets after an object believed to possibly be a pipe bomb was found Wednesday afternoon at a Caltrans maintenance facility, a police spokesman said.
The device was no threat to SOAR Charter Academy, a nearby elementary and middle school, tweeted Eric Vetere, safety and emergency manager for the San Bernardino City Unified School District.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department bomb unit responded and deemed the device a fake, a San Bernardino police official said.