Lockdown at Traner Middle School ends after school police investigate threat

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9:25 a.m. UPDATE: 

Washoe County School District staff confirmed that the lockdown has been lifted and Traner Middle School has resumed normal activities. 

The lockdown was initiated at about 7:55 a.m. this morning after school police received an anonymous tip of a potential threat against the school, but no such threat was found. 

It's unclear as to what that threat was.  

ORIGINAL STORY:

Traner Middle School in Reno was on a code yellow lockdown Wednesday.

School police were investigating a report of a threat against the school, according to Charles Rahn, a Washoe County School District spokesman.

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Classes were continuing, Rahn said. The code yellow is a precautionary lockdown for "heightened awareness," he said, and to prepare for a stronger lockdown if needed.

Traner Middle School is at 1700 Carville Drive, just northwest of the Spaghetti Bowl.

More detail will be posted as it becomes available.