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    Mountain fire triggers school closures across Ventura County

    Madoc Meredith Posted on

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    Several schools in Ventura County will remain closed Thursday after a brush fire broke out near Balcom Canyon and Bradley roads Wednesday morning.

    The mountain fire has burned nearly 10,500 hectares of land and cast a blanket of smoke and ash across the region. As of Wednesday evening, dozens of school districts and individual county campuses serving well over 70,000 students had closures announced for Thursday by the Ventura County Office of Education, according to a compiled list.

    Three of them — Santa Paula Unified School District, Mesa Union School District and ACE Charter School — also announced they were canceling classes Friday.

    Campus closures

    As of 8 p.m. Wednesday, these campuses and districts were scheduled to close on Thursday:

    • ACE Charter High School
    • Mesa Union School District (all locations)
    • Santa Paula Unified School District (all locations)
    • Bridges Charter School
    • Briggs School District (all locations)
    • Campus Canyon Elementary (Moorpark USD)
    • CAPE Charter School
    • Chaparral Middle School (Moorpark USD)
    • Golden Valley Charter School Resource Center
    • High School at Moorpark College (Moorpark USD)
    • Hueneme Elementary School District (all locations)
    • Ivy Tech Charter School Resource Center
    • MATES Charter School
    • Mupu Elementary School District (all locations)
    • Oxnard School District (all locations)
    • Oxnard Union High School District (all locations)
    • Peach Hill Elementary (Moorpark USD)
    • Peak Prep Academy Resource Center
    • Pleasant Valley School District (all locations)
    • Rio School District (all locations)
    • River Oaks Academy Resource Centers (Oxnard & Westlake)
    • Santa Clara Elementary School District (all locations)
    • Somis Union School District (all locations)
    • St. Bonaventure High School
    • Charter school to prepare for university
    • Ventura Charter School
    • Ventura Unified School District (all locations)
    • Vista Real Charter High School (all locations)

    Schools respond to the effects of the mountain fire

    The effects of the so-called mountain fire were felt in schools throughout the day on Wednesday. According to a statement from the Pleasant Valley School District, Camarillo Heights Elementary School was evacuated shortly after 12:30 p.m. and the remaining students were transported by bus to Monte Vista Middle School. The Oxnard Union High School District closed eight high schools — including Rancho Campana, Camarillo, Rio Mesa, Channel Islands, Del Sol, Hueneme, Oxnard and Pacifica — and transported Rancho Campana students to Camarillo High for pickup. Jesus Vaca, principal of Somis School, said in an interview earlier this afternoon that the 219-student campus was in the “happy part of town” and did not need to be evacuated. However, some students were expected to remain on campus after school ended because their families’ homes were within the evacuation zone.

    Isaiah Murtaugh oversees the training of the Ventura County star. Reach him at [email protected] or 805-437-0236 and follow him on Twitter @isaiahmurtaugh And @vcsschools.

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