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Energy believes weather may have caused three separate power outages in
different parts of Las Vegas Thursday. An outage knocked out power for
about 885 customers in northwest Las Vegas late Thursday morning. The
utility confirmed the outage in the area of Washington Avenue and Torrey
Pines Drive. Power, though, was restored by mid-afternoon. NV Energy
then reported an outage affecting 79 customers in the area of Third
Street and Colorado Avenue just before 2 p.m. Power was restored to the
downtown area later in the afternoon. Early on Thursday evening, about
1,000 customers lost power in the area of Charleston Boulevard and
Maryland Parkway. Power was restored before 9 p.m.
Officials
with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish are puzzling over the
mysterious deaths of more than 100 elk, apparently all within a 24-hour
period, in rural New Mexico.
The elk were found Aug. 27 on a 75,000-acre ranch north of the city of Las Vegas. Livestock deaths,
by themselves, are not unusual — there are many things that can fell
large animals, including predators, poachers, a natural or man-made
toxin, disease, drought, heat, starvation, and even lightning. [Spooky! Top 10 Unexplained Phenomena]
But
so far wildlife officials have seemingly ruled out most of these
possibilities: The elk weren't shot (nor taken from the area), so it was
not poachers. Tests have come back negative for anthrax, a bacteria
that exists naturally in the region and can kill large animals. There
seems to be no evidence of any heavy pesticide use in the area that
might have played a role in the die-off.
Though lightning strikes
are not uncommon in the Southwest and in New Mexico specifically,
killing over 100 animals at one time would be an incredibly rare event.
It might be an as-yet unidentified disease, though killing so many at
once — and so quickly — would be very unusual. Another possibility is
some sort of contamination of the well or water tanks, but so far no
toxins have been identified.
SONNY CLARY/SPECIAL TO THE LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
The
Carpenter Canyon fire forced the mandatory evacuation of Trout Canyon, a
small community of about 21 homes. The fire has now come across the
ridge from the west side of the Spring Mountains, forcing the evacuation
of Kyle Canyon. Officials say Mount Charleston "is closed." ....
05.07.2013
Forest / Wild Fire
USA
State of Nevada, [Mount Charleston, near to Pahrump]
....
Forest / Wild Fire in USA on Friday, 05 July, 2013 at 03:29 (03:29 AM) UTC.
Description
It
is day four of the Carpenter One wildfire on the back side of Mount
Charleston near Pahrump and there is still no containment. A mandatory
evacuation order for the Trout Canyon area was issued on Thursday
afternoon. According to the Bureau of Land Management, 21 homes are
affected. It is not known though if all of those homes are currently
occupied. The latest estimate on the size of the wildfire is 1,250
acres. At one point, the BLM estimated the size at almost 2,000 acres
but lowered that number later. The reason for the mandatory evacuation
because changing weather patterns increased the likelihood of the fire
moving towards the homes. A shelter is being opened at the Hafen
Elementary School in Pahrump and the American Red Cross will be
providing assistance.
....
Mount Charleston 'closed' as growing wildfire threatens homes
JOHN MOWBRAY/SPECIAL TO THE LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
The
Carpenter Canyon fire forced the mandatory evacuation of Trout Canyon, a
small community of about 21 homes. The fire has now come across the
ridge from the west side of the Spring Mountains, forcing the evacuation
of Kyle Canyon. Officials say Mount Charleston "is closed."
JOHN LOCHER/LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Las
Vegas police block the road to Kyle Canyon on Mount Charleston outside
of Las Vegas on Thursday. A mandatory evacuation has been ordered for
the canyon.
HENRY BREAN/LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Outside
of Bilbray Elementary School, where a Red Cross shelter was set up for
evacuees, smoke formed an ominous reminder of the advancing fire at
Mount Charleston. A mandatory evacuation of Kyle Canyon sent residents
and holiday picnickers off the mountain. Some ended up at the school
near Fort Apache Road and U.S. 95.
JOHN LOCHER/LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Chelsea
Catignani cries as she waits to get to her home up Kyle Canyon road on
Mount Charleston outside of Las Vegas Thursday. The road up to Kyle
Canyon had been closed because of fire danger and Catiganani wasn't able
to get to her pets. Smoke from the fire can be seen in the mountains
behind her.
By ROCHEL LEAH GOLDBLATT, COLTON LOCHHEAD, HENRY BREAN and ADAM KEALOHA CAUSEY
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Fanned
by increasing winds, a burgeoning wildfire began descending the east
side of Mount Charleston on Thursday, prompting mandatory evacuations
and sending cars full of residents and their possessions down the
mountain.
The building winds made it difficult to fight the blaze
encroaching Kyle Canyon, Las Vegas police spokesman Bill Cassell said.
At 9:45 p.m., the fire was climbing the west side of Cathedral Rock.
The
wildfire kindled by lightning Monday morning in Carpenter Canyon, on
the west side of the Spring Mountains, has grown beyond the 1,250 acres
reported before 1 p.m. Thursday and has crested the peak of Mount
Charleston, officials said.
Multiple sources told the
Review-Journal that the fire was descending the ridge between Griffith
and Mount Charleston peaks. The Bureau of Land Management said late
Thursday no reports of structure damage had been made. Officials did not
update information about the size of the fire or exact location
throughout the night.
Trout Canyon, near the original source of
the fire, also was evacuated, and a shelter was set up in Pahrump for
the residents of the 21 houses there.
Officials began evacuating Lee Canyon, which neighbors Kyle Canyon, late Thursday night.
“They
told me to get off the mountain,” Rose Meranto, a resident of Old Town
in Kyle Canyon said. “They just said don’t waste time and go. So I got
my kitty cats and my son’s cats and I moved.”
About 500 people
were affected by Thursday’s escalating rounds of evacuations. At 11
p.m., Cassell said officers were returning to the homes of those who
were reluctant to leave and requiring them to do so as a matter of
public safety.
“Mount Charleston is closed,” Cassell said.
It’s
not known when evacuees will be allowed to return to their homes. It’s
common in a blaze like this for evacuations to last seven to 14 days,
Cassell said fire officials told him.
State routes 156 and 157 at
U.S. Highway 95 leading to Mount Charleston have been closed, along
with Trout Canyon Road at state Route 160.
No one is being permitted up the mountain.
“The fire reached the trigger point; burning embers are shooting out,” Cassell said.
A
Review-Journal reporter in the Rainbow community on Mount Charleston
witnessed flames twice as tall as the pine trees overlooking Kyle Canyon
before they were obscured by smoke.
Sue Mowbray, a tourist
staying in a Rainbow cabin with her children, said: “The sky was just
bright red. I’ve never seen anything like this before.”
As
Mowbray went down the mountain, she noticed people still at campsites.
She left on her own at 5 p.m., before she was told about the evacuation.
Updated 9:26 PM ET DEATH VALLEY, Calif.
Scorching heat blistered the Southwest on Saturday, where highs between
115 and 120 degrees were expected for parts of Arizona, Nevada and
California through the weekend.
Forecasters said temperatures in
sunbaked Las Vegas could match the record of 117 degrees Saturday; as of
late afternoon, it was 115 degrees. Phoenix hit 119 degrees by
mid-afternoon, breaking the record for June 29 that was set in 1994. And
large swaths of California sweltered under extreme heat warnings, which
are expected to last into Tuesday night — and maybe even longer.
Dan
Kail was vacationing in Las Vegas when he heard that the temperature at
California's Death Valley could approach 130 degrees this weekend. He
didn't hesitate to make a trip to the desert location that is typically
the hottest place on the planet.
"Coming to Death Valley in the
summertime has always been on the top of my bucket list," the
67-year-old Pittsburgh man said. "When I found out it might set a record
I rented a car and drove straight over. If it goes above 130 I will
have something to brag about."
The forecast called for Death
Valley to reach 128 degrees Saturday as part of a heat wave that has
caused large parts of the western U.S. to suffer. At 4 p.m. PDT, the
temperature was 122 degrees. Death Valley's record high of 134 degrees,
set a century ago, stands as the highest temperature ever recorded on
Earth.
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West to get even hotter
Meteorologist
Jeff Berardelli of CBS Station WFOR Miami reported Saturday evening
that we are going to see a prolonged heat wave continue for the next
several days in the desert southwest. Sunday could see high temperatures
near 130 degrees in Death Valley and these temperatures are going to be
very slow to cool down over the next several days -- that heat wave is
going to stick around.
A couple hours south in Baker, the
temperature was expected to peak at 120 degrees in the road tripper's
oasis in the Mojave Desert on Interstate 15. The strip of gas stations
and restaurants between Los Angeles and Las Vegas is known by travelers
for the giant thermometer that often notes temperatures in the triple
digits.
This
graphical forecast provided by the National Weather Service shows
projected high temperatures across the United States for June 29, 2013.
