Wildland fire gets boost from wind

Monday, Nov. 8, 1999 | 9:33 a.m.

Fire information officer Barbara Cook said there was no estimated containment time for the Signboard Fire about 40 miles northeast of Wells.

The fire was burning grass, sage and juniper. No homes were threatened and no injuries were reported.

Cook said the fire is believed to have been caused Saturday by some burning embers at a hunters' camp.

Farther north, a 1,500-acre wildland fire continued to burn out of control near the Nevada-Idaho border.

Cook said the fire had blackened some land in extreme northern Elko County, but was burning mostly in Idaho.

Fires have blackened more than 1.6 million acres across the state in Nevada's worst fire season on record.

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