KOH Special News Reports

Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve will call for an independent counsel to investigate allegations of sexual harassment against City Manager Andrew Clinger. She will also call a special meeting of the Reno City Council to discuss it. Clinger is facing allegations of sexual harassment from three city employees, according to an open meeting complaint filed with the Nevada Attorney General’s Office. Reno lawyer Bill Peterson sent a letter Friday to Chief Deputy Attorney General Brett Kandt asserting the investigation against Clinger was not being handled by the Reno City Council, but by people over whom Clinger has influence. Clinger released a statement Saturday that calls the allegations of sexual harassment “utterly ridiculous" and says he welcomes having the allegations scrutinized publicly since he has done nothing wrong.

Nearly 800 firefighters continue battling the the Virginia Mountains Complex fires. It's composed of five separate wildland fires, including the Anderson fire at 8,511 acres, Sagefire at 4,238 acres, Seven Lakes fire at 3,063 acres, Tule fire at 20,279 acres and the Rock Fire at 2,293 acres and is now fully contained. All five fires are burning within about 20 miles of each other in an arc about 30 miles north of Reno. The Public Information Officer for the B-L-M-s type two major incident management team, Jesse Bender, says weather was a problem earlier today and that's not likely to change tomorrow. Combined containment on all five has been upgraded to 35 percent and the fire has burned more than 36-thousand acres. Full containment on all five fires is expected August sixth. The Tule fire has forced evacuations of residents of Sutcliffe on the Paiute Pyramid Reservation. The Anderson fire has prompted evacuations from the Cottonwood Creek and Fish Springs areas north of Pyramid Lake.

There are about eight-hundred fire fighters battling the five fires that compose the Virginia Mountain Fire Complex. Combined containment on all five has been upgraded to 35 percent and the fire has burned more than 36-thousand acres. The Tule Fire forced evacuationsa from Sutcliffe on the Paiute Pyramid Reservation and the Anderson fire is threatening homes scattered in the area of Cottonwood Creek and Fish Springs north of Pyramid Lake. Washoe County Sheriff's deputies have conducted evacuations there. The Public Information Officer for the B-L-M-s type two major incident management team, Jesse Bender, says winds, low humidity and tall grass are a serious problem for firefighters. Bender says the weather is expected to pretty much the same tomorrow as it was today. There's some concern because humidity is not expected to improve much overnight The complex is being managed by a Type 2 Incident Management Team from the Great Basin with members from Idaho, Nevada, and Utah.

Crews continue to battle the the Virginia Mountains Complex fires, and mandatory evacuations are in place. Washoe County Sheriff's deputies have evacuated homes in the area of Cottonwood Creek and Fish Springs north of Pyramid Lake in the Anderson Fire area. Officials have also called for the evacuation of homes being threatened by the Tule fire in the Big Canyon Area north of Warrior Point at Pyramid Lake. B-L-M's Public Information Officer for the major incident management team, Jesse Bender says there are a lot of resources devoted to the complex:

There are mandatory evacuations in place for two of the five fires of the Virginia Mountain complex of fires. About 600 people have been evacuated from the homes in Sutcliffe on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Indian reservation on the edge of the Tule Fire. Washoe County Sheriff's deputies have been evacuating homes scattered in the area of Cottonwood Creek and Fish Springs north of Pyramid Lake in the Anderson Fire area. B-L-M's Public Information Officer for the major incident management team, Jesse Bender says there are about 800 personnel on the fire, several helicopters and eight tankers. She says among those aircraft are two VLAT . . . Very Large Air Tankers and two Super Scoopers that are scooping water from Pyramid Lake and returning to the fire. The incident meteorologist has told fire management that there will be little change in the weather tomorrow and that there will be little relief from low humidity overnight, meaning the fires will likely continue to spread. The fires have burned a total of more than 35-thousand acres and total containment for the combined fires is ten percent.

The Tribal Council of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe today declared a disaster for the reservation because of the Tule Fire, part of the Virginia Mountain Complex of Fires. B-L-M's Public Information Officer for the major incident management team, Jesse Bender says the focus on the fires was primarily on the Tule Fire, but they're now having problems on the Anderson Fire. The Anderson Fire is running north forcing evacuations in the Cottonwood Creek and Fish Springs areas north of Pyramid Lake. That evacuation affects about 40 homes. There are more than eight-hundred fire fighters battling the five fires of the Virginia Mountain Complex, which have burned a total of more than 35-thousand acres. The complex consists of four fires within a radius of about 20 miles, including the Anderson Fire, Sage Fire, Seven Lakes Fire and the Tule Fire. The fifth fire burning in a separate area is the Rock Fire that initially threatened homes in the Red Rock area, but is nearing full containment. The combined total acreage burned is more than 35-thousand acres

Wind is increasing, causing wildfires to pick up and prompting the evacuation of the Big Canyon Area north of Warrior Point at Pyramid Lake.The Bureau of Land Management reports the Anderson Fire is running to the north, so it is requiring evacuations of Cottonwood Creek and Fish Springs Road north of Red Rock. In the Fish Springs Road and Cottonwood Creek areas, there are about 30 to 40 homes affected.

Sheriffs in most Nevada counties have come out against a background check initiative that gun control advocates are supporting on the ballot this November, but the top cop in the largest police agency in the state says he'll sit this one out. Joe Lombardo, sheriff of Clark County and head of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, said he's chosen to remain neutral on this issue. A yes vote would require background checks through a licensed gun dealer when most firearms change hands, except for temporary transfers of a weapon while hunting or target shooting, for immediate self-defense, and transfers between immediate family members.

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