SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Fire officials have ordered evacuations for a northern Nevada wildfire that is near the same area where another blaze has already burned for days.
The latest wildfire was started by lightning in Palomino Valley.
It has grown to about a third of a square mile in size.
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Evacuations were ordered shortly after the fire was reported Saturday afternoon.
Officials said a dozen homes are threatened but that the situation benefited from having firefighters nearby who were battling a wildfire that started four days earlier.
The older fire grew to about 7.5 square miles but had eased up enough to allow hundreds of people who had been called to flee their homes and horse ranches to return to their properties.