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twitterPine Nut fire almost under control
Monday, Oct. 23, 2000 | 4:53 a.m.
Fire information officer Joe Nishikida said the Como fire 16 miles east of Minden was 90 percent contained Sunday evening. Full containment was expected Monday evening.
No homes were ever threatened and no injuries were reported.
Higher-than-expected winds caused the planned 400-acre prescribed burn to jump its perimeter Friday.
It was deliberately set to improve forage for wildlife. The fire was burning pinyon pine, juniper and sagebrush on Bureau of Land Management land.
BLM spokesman Mark Struble said the land blackened by the wildfire was slated for prescribed burns within three to five years anyway.
"It just burned sooner than we liked," he said.
Firefighting costs for the blaze reached about $92,000 on Sunday, Nishikida said.
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