Winnemucca Blog

Las Vegas Sun:

Firefighters battling several large blazes across northern Nevada welcomed cooler temperatures and even rain in some places Monday, but a reprieve from the heat didn’t tame the potential for gusty, flame-throwing wind and a continued chance of thunderstorms.

“It is cooler than it has been,” Jamie Thompson with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in Winnemucca said early Monday. “But there are concerns about those winds.”

The Winters fire has scorched 187,000 acres, or nearly 300 square miles, of remote Nevada rangeland northeast of Winnemucca since Thursday. Burning in sagebrush and grass, the fire stretched 32 miles east from Midas and was 23 miles wide north to south, officials said.