Lockdown lifted at Ferndale schools after fake guns found

A lockdown has been lifted at Ferndale High School and the middle school after police found fake guns in the building. The district says the day will go on as normal, but parents may still have some questions. Fox 2's Scott Wolchak, live in Ferndale with the details. Scott, this is a call a parent is so afraid to get. Yes, it is. A very, very scary situation. And thankfully, they ended up being fake guns that were recovered. However, that's still a pretty serious thing if you think about it. So police have confirmed they recovered three replica guns. These things look pretty real, according to the cops. And that happened this morning. So the lockdown has lifted here at Ferndale High and Middle School. The lockdown went into place around 9:40 when word got out that these guns, which people thought were real, may be in the school. And so they went under lockdown. Police met with the students who were allegedly involved in this. They say that they brought in four students for questioning to try to figure out what exactly happened here. Lockdown got lifted around 10 in the morning. How did this all come about? Well, the police say that it appears to kind of have been the rumor mill in action that kind of caught this one. There was a. video of some sort that had kind of been making its way around that supposedly showed these students with these fake replica guns. So those things have been recorded and, or, well, they've been recovered, not recorded. Apologies for that. And the questioning is still in process. So it's a little unclear on if any charges are going to come out of this one. School says it's taking everything seriously, but things are back to normal for the rest of the school day here. I'm live in Ferndale. Lee, Marielle, I'll send it back to you. Scott, this is one of those opportunities we have to point out the proper way to do things because if it would have turned out that those guns were real, the school, I think, did the right thing. I think so, too. You know, obviously, they've got to have some type of a protocol in these types of circumstances. It sounds like... You know, knock on wood, this one went off without a hitch. You've got a 20-minute lockdown. Students involved are met with the guns and firearms are recovered. And once again, those were fake replica guns, but still pretty scary situation this morning.