Winds gusting up to 65 mph fanned a Sierra wildfire that forced the evacuation Tuesday of up to 200 people near the California-Nevada line and the closure of a 40-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 395.
With air tankers grounded in sustained 40-mph winds, the fire tripled in size from an estimated 200 acres to more than 600 acres along the Sierra's eastern front by Tuesday evening, said Mark Struble, a spokesman for the Sierra Front Interagency Fire Dispatch Center.
