Rain clouds threatened but didn't produce on Tuesday morning. Photo submitted by Jeff Garvin
Genoa, Nev. — Of the 840 some odd sprinkler audits conducted by East Fork Fire inspectors over the last three years in new construction around 14 percent were required to install a system. Fire District trustees voted to instruct staff to begin the process of implementing their own sprinkler requirement on Tuesday.
County commissioners are expected to introduce what is essentially a repeal of the ordinance at their 9 a.m. meeting today. Because it’s a first reading, opening and closing public comment will likely be the only opportunity for residents to weigh in. Commissioners meet at the Douglas County Courthouse in Minden. Find out more at www.douglascountynv.gov
The Vacation Home Rental Advisory Committee is meeting 10 a.m. at Gardnerville Station to finally be able to focus on their real job, which is fine tuning the VHR ordinance, which has also been threatened with repeal.
A couple of vehicle fires had firefighters racing from one end of town to the other around 1 p.m. Tuesday. A pickup caught fire and burned at Centerville and Highway 88 while there was a report of a propane truck on fire on Fish Springs Road. The pickup was on fire when first responders arrived, the propane truck, not so much.
The Washoe Tribe and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency have been awarded $3.4 million to battle Eurasian watermilfoil at the Lake by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The 4,859-acre Washburn Fire in Yosemite has slowed down considerably. Firefighters have a line around 58 percent and are still on track for containment by the end of the month. The 4,478-acre Electra Fire is at 99 percent and should be contained by Friday.
More than 350 lightning strikes were reported on Tuesday, with .75 inches of rain falling in eastern Churchill County and Hawthorne, Yerington and Fallon receiving between a tenth and a fifth of rain.
The rain repelling forcefield over Carson Valley kept the storms to the east and we are now at 72 days since the last recorded moisture in Minden.
Nothing in the forecast suggests that will change over the next week or so. Today expect sunny skies and a high temperature of 94 degrees. The Washoe zephyr will pick up out of the west 10-15 mph gusting to 25 mph this afternoon.
Kurt Hildebrand is editor of The Record-Courier. Reach him at khildebrand@recordcourier.com
