Over 80 Square Miles Burned by Fires North of Reno

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The Bureau of Land Management continues to map the growth of the Virginia Mountains Complex fires.  The five combined fires making up the complex have burned just under 54 thousand acres, or about 84 square miles.  That number is downgraded from numbers released earlier Tuesday, but containment for the complex as a whole is only 41%. That’s up only one percent since Monday night.  Tuesday afternoon, crews conducted a burnout to keep flames away from Pyramid Highway. That raised a smoke plume seen from much of the Truckee Meadows, but it wasn’t an indicator that the fire was getting out of hand.  The Anderson Fire has grown to over 16 thousand acres at 12% containment. The Sage Fire is fully contained at 42 hundred acres; the Seven Lakes Fire is also fully contained at just over 3,000 acres.  The biggest, The Tule Fire, which caused significant damage to the Sutcliffe area, is 30,340 acres and 35% contained.