Firefighters had managed to partially contain a massive wildfire on Tuesday after the blaze ignited in a California wildland preserve and spread into Nevada, its smoke blotting out the sun across Las Vegas.
The York Fire was mapped at roughly 125 square miles (323.7 square kilometers) on Tuesday, with 23% containment, making it the largest wildfire of the season in California. The blaze erupted Friday near the remote Caruthers Canyon area of the vast wildland preserve, crossed the state line into Nevada on Sunday and sent smoke further east into the Las Vegas Valley.
Firefighters battled “fire whirls” on Monday in their struggle to get the flames under control. A fire whirl sometimes called a fire tornado is a “spinning column of fire” that forms when intense heat and turbulent winds combine, according to the National Park Service. (QNA)
Source: Qatar News Agency