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Wildfire tears through Reno; 10,000 evacuated
CBS/ AP News ^ | 11/18/11 | Staff

Posted on 11/18/2011 12:35:53 PM PST by yorkie

Police in Reno went house to house in the middle of the night, pounding on doors and telling residents they had to evacuate as a roughly 400-acre blaze raged in rough terrain, destroyed homes and injured some people. At least one man is dead, after suffering a fatal cardiac arrest while evacuating.

Nearly 10,000 people from the edge of the city have been evacuated from the path of the massive wildfire and the local fire chief said the blaze could rage through Saturday.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: evacuations; highwinds; nv; reno; wildfire
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1 posted on 11/18/2011 12:35:54 PM PST by yorkie
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“And she ran calling ‘Wildfire!’”

See what happens when you let crazy people run around calling who knows what?


2 posted on 11/18/2011 12:38:34 PM PST by Darksheare (You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
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Isn’t Janet getting a bit old for this nonsense?


3 posted on 11/18/2011 12:38:42 PM PST by dangus
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To: yorkie

I didn’t hear anything about this on the news this morning.


4 posted on 11/18/2011 12:41:01 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: yorkie

Does mean all those insane folks from Reno 911 will have to be relocated?? Hopefully not in Texas. LOL


5 posted on 11/18/2011 12:42:11 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: yorkie

Socialism kills.

These deaths are the direct result of allowing enviro-socialism to replace the 10,000+ year old historical management of the land by man.


6 posted on 11/18/2011 12:42:29 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
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To: yorkie

“At least one man is dead, after suffering a fatal cardiac arrest while evacuating”

we generally see headlines like “Fire kills 1”


7 posted on 11/18/2011 12:43:28 PM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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To: dangus

She’s hoping the fire will destroy the evidence of what really happened.

It won’t.


8 posted on 11/18/2011 12:43:28 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
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To: nuconvert

It hasn’t been on any of the national news channels that I have seen. I found out about it on The Weather Channel - and did a search on Google ‘news’. There are quite a few videos put on YouTube in the last couple hourse, also. Here’s one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKBiJyoVDfU


9 posted on 11/18/2011 12:45:51 PM PST by yorkie
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No doubt President Urkel will blame this fire on Global Warming like he did the Texas wildfires.

I know there's a video of him saying that but I couldn't find it.

10 posted on 11/18/2011 12:46:27 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: GeronL

No, they’re from Sun Valley, north of Reno proper.

This fire is in the southern side/southwest area of Reno. We used to live just south of where this fire is...


11 posted on 11/18/2011 12:49:03 PM PST by NVDave
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As someone who was very close to the Texas fires, and has friends who lost everything....prayers for the people enduring the fires in Reno.


12 posted on 11/18/2011 12:49:58 PM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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I’m with you in prayer for people in harm’s way, the firefighters and those who have lost their homes............


13 posted on 11/18/2011 12:52:52 PM PST by yorkie
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To: basil
As someone who was very close to the Texas fires, and has friends who lost everything....prayers for the people enduring the fires in Reno.

Amen.

14 posted on 11/18/2011 12:59:56 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: GladesGuru

Who’s “she”?


15 posted on 11/18/2011 1:01:42 PM PST by ChocChipCookie
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To: yorkie

Caughlin Ranch is one of several beautiful planned communities in Reno. It is right at the base of the Sierras.


16 posted on 11/18/2011 1:22:59 PM PST by willk
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My brother lives at the northern end of Lake Tahoe, and he said he can see evidence of the wildfires from there. Scary!


17 posted on 11/18/2011 1:24:44 PM PST by AirForceBrat23
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I am less than a mile from the edge of one of the fires....it split into 2 fires by jumping a major thoroughfare. The smoke is horrendous since the wind is around 40-60mph up there until around 4PM. Good news....we are expecting a snowstorm tonight!

- 25 homes lost so far

- Over 10,000 Evacuated

- No defintive cause for fire...officials looking now

- Over 400 firefighters and even more police etc

- Over 2000 acres burned

- Disaster Zone declared

www.kolotv.com for live feed

18 posted on 11/18/2011 1:24:52 PM PST by BossLady (Where There's A Shill...There's A Pay.......)
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To: GladesGuru
"These deaths are the direct result of allowing enviro-socialism to replace the 10,000+ year old historical management of the land by man."

Nonsense.

You should go to Reno and look at it.

I'm surprised the fire had enough fuel to stay lit.

There's nothing for man to manage except scrub...and if you cut all of that you'll have mudslides in the winter/spring.

It's a generally inhospitable place:)

If it wasn't for the original mines, nobody would have stopped there in their western travels 150yrs ago.

No offense to the Reno residents, but that's one ugly town. And, the wind never stops.

19 posted on 11/18/2011 1:27:32 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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If it wasn't for the original mines, nobody would have stopped there in their western travels 150yrs ago.

Actually, it was a winter staging area before crossing the Sierras. If you could make it to Reno before the winter set in, you were safe. Fatten up over winter get an early start the next year, and you'd make it over the mountains okay. In those days, crossing the Sierras was dangerous as hell, and many people lost their lives thinking, "how bad can it be, we already crossed the Rockies and the desert, let's push on to California." Then the snow would come...

20 posted on 11/18/2011 1:36:22 PM PST by Talisker (History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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