A bomb threat shut down the Dayton Boulevard office of the Tennessee Department of Motor Vehicles Wednesday morning.
Red Bank Police Chief Tim Christol said DMV staffers discovered a note in a bathroom about 11 a.m., claiming that a bomb was in the building.
The facility was evacuated and units from the Red Bank Police Department, the Tennessee State Patrol, the Department of Homeland Security, and the City of Chattanooga Police Department’s bomb squad responded.
Officers spent about an hour and a half searching through the building but no bomb was found, so the facility was re-opened about 12:30 p.m., according to Chief Christol.
Christol said officials were extra cautious in deciding to evacuate the building and thoroughly investigate the threat. “Given today’s tenor and the fact that this is a government building, we decided to cover all of our bases,” he said.