Gov. Steve Sisolak listens as Douglas County Commissioner Mark Gardner describes what happened to fine artist Joyce Pike's home, which was destroyed in the Tamarack Fire up above Holbrook Junction.
Photo by Kurt Hildebrand.
The governors of Nevada and California gathered in Holbrook Junction on Wednesday to survey the damage done by the 106-square-mile Tamarack Fire.
Preliminary reports indicate that two dozen structures were destroyed in the blaze that burned the equivalent of a 14th of the land area of Douglas and Alpine counties.
Gov. Steve Sisolak and Gov. Gavin Newsom spoke to the press at the top of Penrod in Holbrook Junction where Douglas County Commissioner Mark Gardner described how fine artist Joyce Pike and her family lost her home.
“She just turned 92 on Tuesday,” Gardner told the governor. “I’m lucky to have several of her pieces.”
Sisolak and Newsom both declared disaster areas over the Tamarack Fire area, which covers Douglas and Alpine counties.
“Thanks for all you’re doing up here,” Sisolak said to firefighters. “It’s obviously devastating, there’s a lot of acres. I appreciate you guys. You’re on the front lines doing the hard work.”
As of Wednesday morning, the fire was 59 percent contained at 68,393 acres.
Nevada Energy lineman were stringing cable and installing power poles destroyed by the fire along the Highway 395 corridor between Spring Valley and Holbrook Junction.