RENO, Nev. (KOLO) -The Australian firefighters were called to the Hawk Fire north of Reno on Saturday Night August 22, 2026.
They came from the Shoshone Fire, also in Nevada. The team is part of 314 Australian firefighters currently in the U.S helping put out various fires in the U.S.
“The vegetation type, you know you look at it and it doesn’t look like it is going to be so catastrophic, but it burns and burns fast and really hot,” says Molly O’Neill an Australian firefighter who worked the front lines of the Hawk Fire…