The July 17, 2024, R-C Morning Report

Genoa, Nev. — There isn’t much new information out this morning about the Spring Valley Fire. The Bald Mountain Alert Wildfire Camera doesn’t show any smoke, and none was visible from Simee Dimeh Summit.

Trucks and other travelers were lined up at the Leviathan Mine closure at around 5:45 a.m. I haven’t received any indication of when the highway will reopen.

I reached out to the Nevada National Guard to find out if their fire suppression unit equipped C-130 was the one fighting the Spring

Valley Fire on Tuesday. They’d announced it was going to Boise just 90 minutes before the fire broke out.

Nevadafireinfo.org is reporting the fire was caused by human activity. What that is will have to wait a spell. There were 216 firefighters working the blaze as of 11 p.m. Tuesday. I followed a strike team down Highway 395 this morning, so perhaps even more.

In nonfire news, the bowling alley in the Gardnerville Ranchos has reopened with a new name, Sierra View Lanes. I don’t know when precisely that happened. It has been closed since late February.

Firefighters have until just after lunch before the wind picks up today. The forecast calls for sunny skies and a high of 92 with the wind out of the 5-10 mph, gusting to around 20 at about 5 p.m.

Kurt Hildebrand is editor of The Record-Courier. Contact him at khildebrand@recordcourier.com or 775-782-5122