Fires During Western States' Heat Wave
Evacuations and Highway Closures
Saturday, July 07, 2007 2106 PDT

NEVADA
Hundreds of people in Winnemucca - 17 miles east of Reno - were ordered to
leave their homes Saturday night because of an 8,000-acre wildfire, one of
more than a dozen blazes that charred a combined 55 square miles in northern
Nevada.
BLM reported the fire threatened 8 blocks of homes and an electrical
substation.

BLM stated the largest of the Nevada fires burned 23,000 acres along the
Idaho border. 10%% contained Saturday. A firefighter with burns was treated
at and released from a hospital in Twin Falls, Idaho.

Another fire blackened 7,000 acres 5 miles SW of Carlin. 2 mobile homes
destroyed, several smaller structures damaged. I-80 closed 6 hours
overnight. 40%% contained Saturday AM.

A Nevada fire 30 milses S of Elko started by lightning Saturday.
Threatening structures -- evacuation of campers.