More schools closed Monday as crews fight Tantallon wildfire

CITYnews halifax \ By Mark Hodgins

The Halifax Regional Centre for Education has closed more schools “out of an abundance of caution” as a wildfire continues to burn near the city.

Those schools are:

-Five Bridges JH
-St. Margaret’s Bay Elementary
-Sackville Heights Elementary
-Sackville Heights JH
-Charles P. Allen

The following schools are also closed on Monday but were announced Sunday evening:

-Bay View High
-Hammonds Plains consolidated
-Kingswood Elementary
-Tantallon Junior Elementary
-Tantallon Senior Elementary
-Madeline Symonds middle school

All of the above schools will be closed on Monday. HRCE said it would have more information for families throughout the day.