Fast-moving Hawk wildfire is about 27% contained in Reno, Nevada, officials say

A wildfire dubbed the Hawk fire is now about twenty-seven percent contained near Reno, Nevada, two days after it broke out, according to The Guardian. Authorities say the wind-driven blaze was human-caused, and while tens of thousands remain under evacuation orders or warnings, those numbers have come down — twenty-three thousand people under a go-now order and forty thousand under a get-set warning, down from ninety thousand Nevadans affected on Monday morning.

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