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COLUMBINE H.S.

Investigators Friday released chilling tapes of 911 calls made from Columbine High School during Tuesday's gun and bomb massacre, including a plea for help from a terrified teacher trapped in the library with her students.

"There's smoke going up in the parking lot right now," said the female student who made the first 911 call. "People are running out of the school like mad."

The female teacher called from under a table in the school library, the scene of the worst carnage.

"Oh God, oh God ... he's upstairs, he's right outside of here," she screamed. "There's someone coming into this room. I'm on the floor. My God, smoke is coming into the room."

The dispatcher tells her to stay on the floor.

"On the floor, everybody, stay on the floor!"

The sounds of at least six gunshots followed.

Steve Davis, spokesman for the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department, then played police radio traffic of officers responding to the call, complete with sirens wailing.

Investigators trying to determine if other people were involved in the massacre or in efforts to booby-trap the school have interviewed hundreds of people and may be helped by video from a security camera, authorities said Friday.

Authorities have found no physical evidence against anyone but gunmen Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, but say the elaborate nature of Tuesday's attack in the Denver suburb of Littleton suggested the work of several people.

On Friday, after a large meeting to compare evidence and statements from an estimated 500 witnesses, the investigators left with renewed interest in reports that more than two people participated in the attack, officials told CNN.

Asked about reports of more than two assailants, Jefferson County Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Davis said, "We've heard that from some students, so our attempt is to either prove or disprove that."

The Colorado Attorney General said his office was involved in the search of a home elsewhere in the Denver area in connection with Tuesday's attack. There was no information on whether anything was seized from the home in Arvada, Colorado. Guns changed hands
As some investigators conducted interviews with students and others who might have useful information, police also returned to Columbine to continue scouring for hidden explosives.

On Thursday, the discovery of a bomb made from a 20-pound propane tank heightened suspicions that Harris and Klebold intended to destroy the school, and could have had help in assembling their arsenal.

The device, with nails and other shrapnel attached, was removed without incident.

Aside from the large bomb, searches have turned up more than 30 homemade explosives, including pipe bombs and crude hand grenades. More may remain hidden, authorities said.

Two sawed-off shotguns, one semi-automatic rifle and one semi-automatic handgun also have been found.

The rifle and handgun have been traced to their original owner but Jefferson County Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Davis said Friday there was no link between the original owner and the high school gunmen.

"We don't know how many times those guns changed hands before getting to our suspects," he said.

Investigators were still trying to trace the shotguns.

Colorado Gov. Bill Owens, who toured the school on Friday, left saying investigators are all but certain the two gunmen had help.

"There are backpacks with bombs in there everywhere," Owens said. "The officers in there are convinced there had to be more people involved. There's just too much stuff in there."

Video could be 'crucial'
Time-lapse security cameras mounted throughout the school do not run continuously, though they record about a week at a time, said Lt. John Kiekbusch of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department.

A surveillance video from Saturday night, when there was an after-prom party at the school, "has the potential to be extremely important," he said.

"We don't know how much (of) that time period might turn out to be on those videos, but it certainly has the potential to be very, very crucial evidence in terms of movement of people throughout that school," Kiekbusch said.

"Ideally," he said, "they would show the movement and also the actual placement perhaps of some of the explosive devices, prior to the incident. If that's the case we have got just very important evidence."

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