Acres: 5,646 acres Start Date: 09/07/2024 Location: Washoe Valley, Nevada Personnel: 620 Containment:   31% Fuels: Timber Resources:   10 Crews | 9 Helicopters | 48 Engines | 2 Water Tenders | 2 Dozers Highlights:  Despite challenging conditions over the past few days, firefighters have achieved 31 percent containment on the west side of the fire. The National Weather Service has issued a Particularly Dangerous Situation (PDS) Red Flag Warning for the Sierra Front, in effect Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. This is only the sixth PDS warning ever issued by NWS Reno, the last being on September 15-16, 2019—marking this as an exceptionally...

read more