Chad Lundquist/Nevada Appeal Pat Wentworth, 55, works to clean up the dead mustard plants that have taken over her yard at her home in north Carson City on Sunday. Wentworth agreed to have a trash receptacle on her property as part of an initiative to help protect homes from wildfires.

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