Winds fan brush fire, hundreds are evacuated
Winds gusting up to 65 mph fanned a Sierra wildfire that forced the evacuation Tuesday of up to 200 people near the California-Nevada line and the closure of a 40-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 395.
With air tankers grounded in sustained 40-mph winds, the fire tripled in size from an estimated 200 acres to more than 600 acres along the Sierra’s eastern front by Tuesday evening, said Mark Struble, a spokesman for the Sierra Front Interagency Fire Dispatch Center.
About 50 homes in Mono County between Coleville and Walker were immediately threatened and 150 other structures were in the area of the fire.
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