State of Emergency in Nevada
Nevada is burning up (from FOXNews.com).
RENO, Nev. — Gov. Kenny Guinn declared a state of emergency as state and federal crews put practically every available piece of equipment on the lines to combat dozens of lightning-sparked fires that have burned 125 square miles of Nevada.More than 1,000 firefighters on Wednesday were battling dozens of fires, from a 57,000-acre blaze burning out of control largely in uninhabited rangeland in northeast Nevada to a complex of a dozen smaller fires around Reno and Carson City that forced evacuations at the town of Mound House along the historic Pony Express Trail.
The wildfire season has been picking up gradually since the big grass fires in Oklahoma and Texas were extinguished earlier this year. As far as I know, the Nevada fires are putting the first real strain on the firefighting system since then.
