{"id":442141,"date":"2026-08-24T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/442141\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:30:10","slug":"more-than-90000-under-evacuation-due-to-hawk-fire-in-nevada-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/442141\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 90,000 under evacuation due to Hawk Fire in Nevada \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\u00a0wildfire<\/a>\u00a0that mushroomed over the weekend in the Sierra Nevada foothills spread perilously close to neighborhoods in Reno, Nevada, forcing authorities to urge more than\u00a090,000 residents to leave\u00a0their homes.<\/p>\n

The out-of-control fire has already burned some homes, but there’s concern that shifting winds could push the flames into newly developed and densely packed neighborhoods on the edge of Nevada’s second-biggest city.<\/p>\n

Schools across the county were closed Monday because of the evacuations and to keep roads clear for emergency crews.<\/p>\n

Authorities said late Sunday that the Hawk Fire had stayed in its footprint and firefighters were extinguishing hotspots while working to keep the fire from jumping a main highway and reaching areas filled with homes and businesses.<\/p>\n

The fire began Saturday and grew to more than 23 square miles on Sunday across foothills ringed by neighborhoods near the California state line. There was zero containment.<\/p>\n

At least six people \u2014 three first responders and three civilians \u2014 were injured. Officials said the fire was \u201chuman-caused\u201d but did not say whether it was intentionally set or accidental.<\/p>\n

Videos posted on social media showed the smoldering ruins of homes and cars, with only a scorched basketball hoop still standing.<\/p>\n

Many residents had little time to evacuate after the fire exploded in size.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, I thought it was like in a movie,\u201d said Ruby Delatorre, who got back from a concert only to find her home in the evacuation zone. She returned Sunday to walk to her home and get a few more possessions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI literally want to cry and go back for all my stuff. I just got what I thought I needed,” Delatorre said.<\/p>\n

Some who spotted the smoke on Saturday thought it was from another wildfire that has been burning the past two weeks.<\/p>\n

Teresa Lenshyn, who is among the evacuees, said being forced to leave was chaotic and stressful. \u201cYou don\u2019t know if the winds are going to shift and it’s going to get worse,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Hawk Fire is the third large wildfire in the rugged terrain north of Reno in the past two weeks \u2014 all caused by human activity, according to fire officials.<\/p>\n

Extremely dry conditions across the American West have sparked a rash of wildfires this summer. Fires\u00a0in eastern Washington state\u00a0forced the evacuation of\u00a060,000 people\u00a0in the Spokane area in early August.<\/p>\n

Nationwide, there have been more than\u00a050,000 wildfires\u00a0\u2014 the most over the past 10 years covering the same time period, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\u00a0wildfire\u00a0that mushroomed over the weekend in the Sierra Nevada foothills spread perilously close to neighborhoods in Reno, Nevada,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,535],"class_list":["post-442141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}