A bomb threat which briefly shut down parts of UW Hospital Wednesday afternoon turned out to be a false alarm, according to UW Police.
Lt. Eric Holen said no one was hurt in the incident. According to the police report, a city employee at the City-County Building, 210 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., took an anonymous phone call around 1:15 p.m. from a male claiming there was a bomb inside UW Hospital.
He said the device would detonate within an hour but did not give its specific location within the building.
UW Police dispatched to the hospital found a suspicious item in the second floor lobby.
Police evacuated the area around the package and called the Dane County Bomb Squad to the scene. The bomb squad inspected the item and determined it was not an explosive device.
\Once they gave the all-clear, then we let people back in,"" Holen said.
UW-Madison junior Kristi Strei, who was in the hospital library during the bomb scare, said she saw people evacuating areas of the hospital but was not made aware of the incident until she went to class later.
""They were just getting off the elevator; no one cared,"" Strei said. ""Well, not to say they didn't care, but there was no mass hysteria.""
Strei said her teacher told the class they could go home if they were uncomfortable. She told them areas of the main lobby, school of nursing and some clinics were evacuated.
