\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA student from the California Area School District was killed Friday night after officials said they were involved in a dirt bike accident. Washington County dispatchers confirmed to Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 that the incident occurred near Highland Drive and Hill Street in California Borough. We’re told the student, who has not been identified, was 16-years-old. The school district sent a letter to families, informing them of the loss, further saying grief counselors and therapy dogs will be on-site for students on Monday. “The California Area Trojan family mourns with and offers our deepest condolences to the family, friends, and loved ones most impacted by this tragedy,” the school district said in the letter sent to families. “We stand together as a community, united in support of the family during this profound loss.” Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 has reached out to California police and additional Washington County officials for more information. Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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A student from the California Area School District was killed Friday night after officials said they were involved in a dirt bike accident. <\/p>\n
Washington County dispatchers confirmed to Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 that the incident occurred near Highland Drive and Hill Street in California Borough. <\/p>\n
We’re told the student, who has not been identified, was 16-years-old. <\/p>\n
The school district sent a letter to families<\/a>, informing them of the loss, further saying grief counselors and therapy dogs will be on-site for students on Monday. <\/p>\n “The California Area Trojan family mourns with and offers our deepest condolences to the family, friends, and loved ones most impacted by this tragedy,” the school district said in the letter sent to families. “We stand together as a community, united in support of the family during this profound loss.” <\/p>\n Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 has reached out to California police and additional Washington County officials for more information. <\/p>\n Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A student from the California Area School District was killed Friday night after officials said they were involved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8595,101066,7,100652,9,8,101064,1431,1576,101069,101067,101065,1838,3289,7839,6184,4574,71446,13417,101068],"class_list":["post-220994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-action-news","tag-additional-washington-county-official","tag-california","tag-california-area-school-district","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-dirt-bike-accident","tag-family","tag-friend","tag-grief-counselor","tag-highland-drive","tag-hill-street","tag-letter","tag-loss","tag-more-information","tag-pittsburgh","tag-student","tag-therapy-dog","tag-washington-county","tag-washington-county-dispatcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}