Fire crews focus on grass, brush

Monday, Aug. 16, 1999 | 12:42 p.m.

Fire crews remain busy across northern Nevada, but they're getting a break from fighting flames.

Instead, they're working to start rehabilitating some 1.3 million acres of grass and brush that burned in the past two weeks.

The Minden Fire Dispatch Center reported no active fires in the western Nevada area and dispatch centers in Elko and Winnemucca said fires in those areas are under control.

The weekend's largest fire burned across 1,400 acres about 35 miles north of Winnemucca and was contained on Sunday.

A fire that began Saturday in the Ferguson Springs area about 26 miles south of Wendover was contained at about 300 acres.

Teams are moving into areas that have been burned to do assessment work that will lead to reclamation efforts.

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