Incident Commander Dan Dallas said clear skies on Tuesday allowed aircraft to fly on the fire, but sunny weather heats up fuel. He said that firefighters are expecting hot and dry conditions for the foreseeable future. He said that while there’s not been significant wind, unstable air caused by the fire’s heat is contributing to the fire’s growth. “When it’s all the way open the fire is accelerated,” he said. “There has been some pretty significant fire activity along Woodfords, but there are a lot of firefighters there,” Seekins said.įire Behavior Analyst Glen Lewis said unseasonably hot and dry weather is contributing to the fire growth like open damper on a chimney. Several fire crews are working on the south of Woodfords in an effort to keep the fire from jumping Highway 88 and getting into the forest in the Carson Range. The highway was shut down between the state line and Picketts Junction. Highway 88 was closed on Tuesday after Alpine Undersheriff Tom Minder said there’s active fire in Woodfords Canyon. Our highest priority is the 395 corridor.” There’s a lot of potential for this fire to move around in here. “We had crews looking for options to establish a dozer line to exclude impacts from the fire if it pushes northeast. “We have a lot of crews on the 395 corridor, and we’re working assessing risk,” Operations Section Chief Pat Seekins said. To sign up visit and register your mobile phone number and physical address.įire officials said their priority was protecting the Highway 395 corridor from Ruhenstroth south. The county is encouraging residents to sign up for reverse 911 so they can be notified if there’s a danger from the fire.
“If there’s something you’re going to need, take care of it now, so you have it when you need it.” “Keep in mind there could be power outages and road closures,” he said at a briefing 6 p.m. Washoe Tribe Police are notifying residents of tribal allotments to evacuate to the Douglas County Community and Senior Center, as the evacuation center in Dresslerville isn't ready.ĭouglas County Sheriff Dan Coverley asked residents to be mindful of the fire and to have a plan should they evacuate. as it burned toward the Nevada state line, according to the InciWeb Incident Information System. The fire’s official size is 39,000 acres as of 7 p.m.
Not two hours before the evacuations, officials said the fire burned to within a half-mile of the Nevada state line on Tuesday, and that keeping the fire away from Highway 395 was a priority. to go door-to-door to advise residents of the region in the Pine Nut Mountains to evacuate. Climate change has made the West much warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.Residents along the Highway 395 corridor from Leviathan Mine Road to Holbrook are being advised to evacuate as the the Tamarack Fire burns into Douglas County.ĭouglas County Sheriff's Search and Rescue Team members were called out at 7:50 p.m. At least 70 homes and more than 100 outbuildings have burned, but no one is known to have died.Įxtremely dry conditions and recent heat waves tied to climate change have made wildfires harder to fight. The blaze, which is being fought by more than 2,200 people, is about one-third contained.Īt least 2,000 homes were ordered evacuated at some point during the fire and an additional 5,000 were threatened. Monstrous clouds of smoke and ash have risen up to 6 miles (10 kilometers) into the sky and are visible for more than 100 air miles (161 kilometers).
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Judge rules PG&E will face manslaughter trial over deadly Northern California wildfireįire crews have had to retreat from the flames for 10 consecutive days as fireballs jump from treetop to treetop, trees explode, embers fly ahead of the fire to start new blazes and, in some cases, the inferno’s heat creates its own weather of shifting winds and dry lightning.
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