Brush Fire at Nevada Nuclear Test Site Ebbs

A lightning-sparked desert brush fire that swept across 7,680 acres of the remote Nevada Test Site was reduced to smoldering embers Sunday as dry winds gusting up to 30 m.p.h. stilled to a gentle breeze.

The massive fire in rugged terrain never threatened buildings at the nation’s only nuclear weapons testing facility, where warheads are exploded far underground, the U.S. Department of Energy said.