LOS ANGELES, United States: Officials in Nevada in the western United States urged people to evacuate their homes Sunday as a fast-moving, wind-driven wildfire bore down on the city of Reno.
Some 42,000 people have evacuated their homes and another 45,000 have been told to get ready leave, Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve told CNN.
The one-day-old Hawk Fire had grown to 6,087 hectares by Sunday afternoon and was burning eight kilometers northwest of Reno, a metropolitan area of over 280,000 people, according to census data from 2025.
The blaze has already destroyed some mountaintop homes and injured six people, including three first responders, local media reports said.
The Hawk Fire showed “extreme fire behavior,” according to InciWeb, a US government website that tracks fire activity.
