#ConnerFire - Douglas County, Nevada > Captured in one picture:
Smoke from the Conner Fire, fleeing Pine Nut wild horses and incoming firefighting plane
📸 Connor Stockstill Photography
#Animals #wildlife #horses #wildhorses
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Gardnerville Nevada - The fire is 17,352.7 acres per the perimeter uploaded to the National Inter-agency Fire Center (NIFC), which is visible on the Watch Duty map under the Active Fire Perimeters map layer.
Weather is helping today.
The #Connerfire is approximately 17,353 acres, remains at 0% containment.
Pine Nut Wild Horse Advocates update:
The Pine Nut wildhorses are reported safely tucked away from the fires. PNWHA'Volunteers can see the horses but have to stay back so the firefighters can work.
📸 Connor Paige Stockstill
Man I hope this makes its way down to the Carson Valley! #ConnerFire
The weather is cutting us a bit of a break today, wind-wise.
A little breezy here and there, and the #ConnerFire laid down a lot overnight.
Don't think we'll get much rain out of those clouds.
More smoke plumes today, but nothing like yesterday! 😀
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Effective immediately, Topaz Lake is closed to all public access to allow for uninterrupted aerial firefighting efforts in response to the Conner Fire.
Topaz is being used by the Canadian Firefighter Super Scooper.
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Flying a drone near wildfire operations puts lives at risk. If you fly, firefighting aircrafts must be grounded for safety, which delays critical suppression efforts.
It’s a federal crime to interfere with wildfire response. Violators can face:
>12 months in prison
> $20,000
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Gardnerville, NV
6/21 - crews focused on strengthening containment lines, structure protection where needed, and conducting mop-up to extinguish residual heat at fire’s edge. In higher elevations, greener fuels are slowing fire behavior, offering some help w/ suppression
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Gardnerville Nevada - 14,000 acres - 0% contained
Started as a house fire early Friday morning - Extreme Winds grew fire 12,000 acres on Friday
Air Tankers: 6
Helicopters: 5
Engines: 32
Crews: 6
Heavy equipment: 10
Total Personnel: 489
#ConnerFire - Douglas County, NV
14,000+ acres
0% contained
Resources:
Personnel 489
Crews 6
Engines 32
Heavy equipment 10
Air Tankers 6
Helicopters 5
📸 John T. Humphrey Photography
#ConnerFire summary
13,901 acres
0% containment.
Firefighters will remain on the fire throughout the night.
The TEP at Douglas County Community & Senior Center is closing as an evacuation site for the night, will reopen if needed.
Large Animals > DC Fairgrounds open
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The Conner Fire near Gardnerville, NV is now nearly 14,000 acres. It exploded today due to wind and grew by just over 12,000 acres today.
Current fire cam shots from Minden, NV and Bald Mountain, NV. Now you can more easily see where the line of fire actually is.
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www.alertwildfire.org?currentFirec...
How we moved 36 chickens, a technique that may help fellow chicken (or other small animal) owners bugging out in a wildfire. I still have the carriers in case we ever have to move our entire flock again in short order:
jackshenhouse.blogspot.com/2011/09/such...
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Hey, I can see the fire threatening my house from here!
Always fun when your wildfire is visible from freakin' space...
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#ConnorFire #ConnerFire - Wildfire in Gardnerville, NV - 2000+ acres. Extreme fire behavior. Red Flag Warner - extremely high winds
Evac's ordered for -
Old Ranch Road
Lola Road
Edward Road
Jackson Road
Bodie Flat area
Conner Way area
Pinenut Road
Pinenut 2 Road
Freds Street
My Way
Sandoval Lane
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Evacuation Order - Level 3 - Go
Out-R-Way and Sunset Ridge and east, in the Fish Springs area
Old Ranch Road, east of Out-R-Way, in the Fish Springs area
Pine Nut Road 2 from Freds St. to the east
Bodie Flats, Lola, Edwards, Jackson Streets
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Overnight a house fire spread out into the wildland interface and rapidly spread into the brush. Red Flag Warning all day yesterday and all day today with extreme winds impacting fire behavior and grounding aircraft.
Screenshot of current satellite imagery over western United States and Mexico, with various large wildfires denoted by red circles. Large smoke plumes emanating from these fires are also visible.
Evening satellite snapshot depicts marked increase in SW U.S./N Mexico wildfire activity, largely aligning w/Red Flag Warning across Great Basin eastward into Central Rockies. Most notable: multiple large fires in UT, plus #ConnerFire south of Carson City, NV. #CAwx #NVwx #UTwx
Looking out across a flat desert, low grass and scattered scrubs stretching off into the distance to a sky dominated on the left by a thick dark brown plume of smoke and on the right by clear blue sky with thin clouds. The plume has covered the sun (out of frame) giving the scene dull muted lighting that is slightly tinted orange.
My view from along Hwy 95 south of Fallon.
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The #ConnerFire is kinda heading towards the dump, I'm wondering if that's what the new giant black plume is about...
*please* don't let it get ahold of the damned dump. I can't even imagine the smell/toxins it'd release.
#ConnerFire - evacuation sites
Temporary evacuation point
Douglas County Community & Senior Center, 1329 Waterloo Ln, Gardnerville, NV 89410
(enter on senior center side / animal trailer on site)
Large animal shelter
Douglas Fairgrounds, 920 Dump Rd, Gardnerville, NV 89410
Sigh. Yet another fire in the Pinenuts South of Gardnerville Nv. Thing is moving. Driven by the high Winds here today. Pretty sure it’s spotted several times. #connerfire
Great webcam views of the #ConnerFire, and a great site to bookmark:
www.alertwildfire.org?currentFirec...
#ConnerFire > A Precautionary Evacuation Warning has been issued for a portion of the Fish Springs area. Residents should begin preparing for a potential evacuation.
TEP > Community center, enter through Senior Center side. Animal trailer on site.
Evac map: ayrs.io/JUlwBx
The view from the end of our street just now.
New estimate is 2,000 to 2,500 acres, (I have no info on containment). At least two points of ignition (I think the new starts are windblown-caused). Stay safe, y'all.
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