#ConnerFire
#ConnorFire
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.
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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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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
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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.
#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
#ConnorFire #ConnerFire - Gardnerville Nevada
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.
#ConnorFire still looking very bad, burning lots, though so far mostly not houses.
This website has an impressive set of webcams you can grab time-lapses from, and it shows you the directions on a map very clearly. This is very cool! Good job, Nevada. https://alertnevada.live/
The #ConnorFire can currently be seen on the cameras at Minden, Bald Mt, Hawkins Peak, and Ridge Tahoe on the ALERT Wildfire website. Please listen to and obey instructions from emergency responders, monitor evacuation orders, and stay safe everyone. tinyurl.com/38fc4f8s
