NIPOMO, Calif. (KEYT) – Nipomo High was placed on a short secure-in-place protocol after a student was heard over the intercom stating, "school shooter" Tuesday.

"There is no danger to staff or students at this time," shared the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office in a statement to Your News Channel. "The investigation is ongoing, but at this time all indications are that the threat was not malicious and may have been the result of a prank."

According to the Lucia Mar Unified School District, Nipomo High School was immediately placed into the lockdown as law enforcement responded to the scene.

"The classroom where the call originated was quickly identified. Following a brief investigation, the student involved was identified," read a statement from the school district Tuesday shared with Your News Channel.

Central Coast New Tech High was also included in Tuesday's secure-in-place protocol noted the Lucia Mar Unified School District.

Your News Channel has reached out to both the Lucia Mar Unified School District and the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office for more information and their respective responses will be added to this article when they are received.

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UC SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - After helping the Gauchos start 2-0 in conference play for the first time since the 2022-23 season, Aidan Mahaney has been named both The Big West and the Lou Henson National Player of the Week. Mahaney averaged 28.0 points, 5.0 rebounds and 3.5 assists in wins over Long Beach State and Cal State Bakersfield.

Mahaney scored a career-high 26 points in an overtime win against Long Beach State on Thursday night. The senior went 7-16 from the floor and made all 11 of his foul shots. He also grabbed a season-high six rebounds in the contest. The Lafayette, California native followed that performance up by setting a new career-high with a 30-point outing against Cal State Bakersfield. Mahaney was perfect from beyond the arc, going 7-7 while grabbing four boards and dishing out four assists.

Mahaney helped the Gauchos score 100 points in a Big West contest for the first time since Jan. 22, 2021, when they scored 105 against CSUN. It is also the first 30-point game by a Gaucho since Ajay Mitchell scored 39 against UC Riverside on Dec. 30, 2023.

The Gauchos will resume their non-conference slate this Saturday, Dec. 13 as they head to Salt Lake City and take on Utah Valley at the Delta Center in the Salt Lake Slam. The game will tip off at 11 a.m. PT.

(Article courtesy of UCSB Athletics)

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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) - Santa Barbara County has fully launched its new Regional Fire Communications Center and expansion of the Emergency Operations Center.

The upgraded facility centralizes fire and EMS dispatch for seven local fire agencies. There are five dispatchers on duty with a supervisor for every shift.

They will handle all calls for the Santa Barbara County Fire Department, Carpinteria-Summerland Fire Protection District, Santa Barbara City Fire Department, Montecito Fire Protection District, Lompoc Fire Department, Guadalupe Fire Department, and Santa Maria Fire Department and the  American Medical Response (AMR). 

This also expands the Emergency Operations Center, to include a new Joint Information Center and Call Center, which is activated in large scale emergencies such as wildland fires and earthquakes. This puts the key players on the same property.    

The site will support 911 calls for service coming in and emergency responders on the move.

The key feature is the ability to see where all engines and AMR vehicles are located, even if they are not in their district for whatever reasons, and then dispatch that resource to the emergency.

Already it has been an active center since it gradually began opening in June.

There have been 32,000 calls and 64,000 dispatches for emergency equipment.

That includes assistance for bystander CPR and the delivery of two babies.

Retired County Fire Chief Mark Hartwig said "what we created here is historic."

President of the Fire Chiefs Association of Santa Barbara County and the Fire Chief for the Montecito Fire Department, David Neels said, the multi-year process to complete the project took an "Unwavering support from city council and the Board of Supervisors," both political and financial. He called the building "state of the art."

Neels also said that "seconds matter" in an emergency and the public will be getting those seconds back with this new collaboration.

Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Director Kelly Hubbard says the new building is completely linked internally for all the services that come out of that location. OEM will activate its staff of department heads, resource coordinators, and partners such as utility companies in the event of an emergency.   

All the key areas will have video monitors to follow camera shots, emergency scenes, local news reports, county real-time data such as river flows and other critical information.

(More details, photos and video will be added here later today.)

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