UPDATE 3:30PM: Forward progress of the #FlintFire off Highway 50 East was stopped as of 3:29 p.m., according to a Carson City Fire Department battalion chief. The cause of the fire is under investigation. No injuries or structure damage has been reported.
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UPDATE 3:20PM: Firefighters appear to have gotten the upper hand on the #Flintfire burning off of Highway 50 East in Carson City, which had temporarily shut down both lanes of traffic. Both eastbound and westbound lanes are open, with some limited lane delays to allow for firefighters dousing hot spots. A helicopter will use water from nearby Empire Ranch Golf Course to douse hot spots as they come up.
The fire is around 2 acres, according to Sierra Front Interagency Dispatch Center.
UPDATE 3PM: Both westbound travel lanes of Highway 50 were to be open at around 3 p.m. and one lane eastbound US-50 was to also open soon after, according to a Carson City sheriff’s sergeant. Motorists are advised to go slow and use caution.
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UPDATE 2:42PM: Both eastbound and westbound lanes of Highway 50 in east Carson City have been closed near the landfill due to the brush fire.
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Carson City Fire Department and sheriff’s deputies were called Tuesday afternoon to a brush fire near the Carson City landfill, burning close to Highway 50 East.
The fire was reported at around 2:15 p.m., and is in the wild land brush area off of Flint Drive and not at the landfill, according to a battalion chief on scene.
CCFD has asked law enforcement to shut down the travel lane on eastbound Highway 50. Multiple fire engines and brush crews have been requested from Lyon, Storey and Douglas counties. BLM firefighters have arrived on scene.
The fire, named the #flintfire, was around a half-acre in size and growing. No structures were immediately threatened. Go here for real-time photos of the fire taken from the alertwildfire.org cam at McClellan Peak.
Check back for updates.
