The Nevada Type 3 Incident Command Team 3, the team managing The Paddock Fire, held an informational meeting for the community Saturday. The fire is now estimated to have burned over 187,000 acres as of Saturday.
- The perimeter of the fire is a total of 91 miles.
- Containment sits at 0%, as of Saturday.
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( Below is the transcript from the broadcast story)
“A total of 91 miles is the perimeter of this fire, so it’s gonna take us a little bit to get around it,” says Andy Bertelson, the Nevada Type 3 Team 3 Incident Commander.
Fire crews are still working to battle the Paddock fire, which sits at 0% containment as of Saturday.
“The current situation is, you may have noticed, that the fire has grown to 187,000 acres,” says Robert Duggan, a public information officer on the Paddock Fire.
He tells me that an aerial mapping flight has helped make their maps more accurate.
“The main reason it’s grown to that is through the mapping and we’ve corrected some of the errors and we fixed up some of the lines so we’ve gotten better mapping,” says Duggan.