Police investigate a possible call for “swatting” at Hoag hospital in Newport Beach

Newport Beach police responded to information reporting a shootout at Hoag hospital on Tuesday morning, but said he did not seem to be threat to the public.

Police swept the premises in the hospital just after 7 am after receiving a call to 911 reporting a shooting, according to a spokesperson for the department. But when the police arrived, there was no sign of shooting and that the hospital staff said that there was no emergency.

According to the authorities, it was not immediately clear what information was relayed to emergency distributors, but the police examine the incident as a possible call for “loot”, according to the authorities.

A spokesperson for Hoag Hospital could not be immediately contacted to comment.

False reports of 911 can arouse fear, panic and trigger a great response from the police that can have deadly consequences. In March, the children’s hospital at the University of Loma Linda was placed on a locking after someone called the authorities and threatened to make a mass shooting. The authorities have determined that it is a hoax call.

A day later, the police responded to the information reporting a person who was hosting at the Claremont McKenna College and preparing to shoot people on the campus. This call was also determined to be a hoax, police said.

In 2018, a man from Los Angeles was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for having made dozens of cuts to cuts, one of whom led the police to kill an unarmed man responding to his front door in Kansas.