{"id":429845,"date":"2026-08-11T15:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/429845\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T15:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:46:11","slug":"bug-fire-near-california-nevada-border-prompts-school-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/429845\/","title":{"rendered":"Bug Fire near California-Nevada border prompts school closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine schools just across the California-Nevada border are closed Tuesday as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/bug-fire-california-nevada-border-lassen-county-august-10-evacuations-reno-area\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bug Fire<\/a> continues to bring evacuations and power outages to communities north of Reno.<\/p>\n<p>The Washoe County School District said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WashoeCountySchoolDistrict\/posts\/pfbid029KDQHiKBAuf1k4sm7Sv6r2eJdYBZJUerLEaMbXi3Pm8AxXdSgBPnj2abFNCzejTPl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">all classes and activities<\/a> at Natchez Elementary School were canceled Tuesday. Eight other schools will also remain closed: Desert Heights, Silver Lake, Lemmon Valley, Alyce Taylor, Jesse Hall and Spanish Springs elementary schools, along with Shaw Middle School and Spanish Springs High School.<\/p>\n<p>District officials said the decision was made based on current evacuation zones, power outages and updated information from public safety agencies. All other schools are scheduled to operate normally Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/v-bug-fire-kmaxg288.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"v-bug-fire-kmaxg288.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The Bug Fire, as seen on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>School buses will also not operate in areas under evacuation orders or warnings, which the district identifies as red and yellow zones on the regional <a href=\"https:\/\/perimetermap.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">evacuation map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>District officials are working with public safety agencies to determine when the affected schools can safely reopen.<\/p>\n<p>The closures come as the <a href=\"https:\/\/inciweb.wildfire.gov\/incident-information\/nvccd-fred-mt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bug Fire<\/a> continues burning along the California-Nevada border. The wildfire started Saturday in Lassen County before spreading into Sierra County and Washoe County, prompting thousands of evacuations north of Reno.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/bug-fire-california-nevada-border-lassen-county-august-10-evacuations-reno-area\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo declared a state of emergency<\/a> Monday for parts of Washoe County and the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony impacted by the Bug and Fred Mountain fires. More than 6,000 people had been evacuated as of Monday night, with thousands more under evacuation warnings.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine schools just across the California-Nevada border are closed Tuesday as the Bug Fire continues to bring evacuations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[871,3482,46599,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-429845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-lake-tahoe","tag-nevada","tag-reno","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429845","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=429845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}