A fiery summer continues at the former Nevada Test Site, with another blaze reported in the southwest part of the site at Area 25 and 29, according to a press release.
By Monday afternoon local time, the fire had spread across some 860 acres, compared with the 300 on which it was burning earlier in the day, when the site first notified the public at large about the fire. Someone spotted smoke on Sunday, the site tweeted.
During the explosive testing era, from 1945 through 1992, there were no nuclear detonations at either Area 25 or Area 29, according to a table published in 2000 in a DOE document called “United States Nuclear Tests July 1945 through September 1992.”
The Glass Canyon fire popped up about two weeks after responders contained two other fires in the western part of the site, at Area 29 and Area 30.
Those fires were contained about a month after a much larger wildfire, called Cherry Wood, charred more than 25,000 acres.
