The firefighters were “mocked and ignored” when they initially told their supervisors of what would later be determined as second-degree burns and blisters,, a lawsuit said.
One person was arrested by the California State Fire Marshal on charges of attempting to smuggle nearly 20,000 pounds of illegal fireworks into Mono County.
Mark Lawson had offered to settle with the city for $170,000. The Sparks City Council on Monday voted down that offer 3-2. The council countered with a $120,000 settlement.
It happened when crews were working on a water heater in a downstairs apartment started a fire that got into the crawl space between the apartments and went to the attic.
TFPD asks people to call 911 and move away from the area if they smell leaking gas, which can smell like rotten eggs, to avoid accidentally setting a leak on fire.
The Bureau of Land Management and nonprofit organization Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition teamed up to seed more than 19,000 acres of burned public lands in eastern Nevada
Permits for open burning of pine needles, slash pile, construction warming fires, and recreational fire pits are available Monday through Friday, free of charge.