Firefighters battling a wildfire near the Burning Man festival say they're trying to keep the main highway open to the counterculture celebration in the Nevada desert.
Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Dan Gordon says State Route 447 connecting Interstate 80 to the festival was closed for several hours overnight but reopened Thursday morning.
Gordon says traffic is moving in both directions but it's "very slow going."
Interagency fire spokesman John Gaffney says the biggest priority is protecting about a half dozen ranches threatened by the fire that has burned about 45 square miles.
The blaze is about 40 miles south of Burning Man.
He says aircraft are attacking the flames that are chewing through sagebrush and cheatgrass in temperatures expected to reach triple digits.
