Ferndale High and Middle schools locked down after reports of students with items that looked like firearms

Ferndale High School and Ferndale Middle School were both placed on lockdown Tuesday morning after school staff received a report of students with items that appeared to be firearms.

The items were later determined not to be real firearms.

School officials said the schools were placed on lockdown at around 9:40 a.m. and the lockdown was lifted at 10 a.m. Staff and the Ferndale Police Department searched the buildings and lockers and accounted for all students.

The students involved were removed from the building, and their families were contacted.