Reno wildfire forces 90,000 to evacuate as Hawk fire spreads to 15,000 acres

Nearly 90,000 residents forced to evacuate, including 42,000 under mandatory orders; six people injured (three civilians, three first responders); multiple structures destroyed and homes threatened.

In the high desert city of Reno, Nevada, a human-caused fire has reminded nearly 90,000 residents how quickly the familiar can become the unrecognizable. Driven by wind and drought across more than 15,000 acres, the Hawk fire reached the edges of a university campus and the thresholds of ordinary lives — taxidermists, campers, students — before a city could fully comprehend what was approaching. It is a story as old as the American West and as urgent as Sunday morning: that the land, when pushed past its limits, does not negotiate.

Reno wildfire forces 90,000 to evacuate as Hawk fire spreads to 15,000 acres

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