70,000-acre California wildfire crosses into Nevada, is 0% contained

Unpredictable winds and dry fuels are creating challenges for firefighters struggling to slow a 70,000-acre wildfire that started in California’s Mojave National Preserve and spread across the state border Sunday afternoon into Nevada. Federal fire officials reported that as of 2 p.m. Sunday the York fire was at 0% containment. “Over the last couple of days, there’s been general breezy south to southwest winds across the region, and that’s helped push it off [to] the northeast,” said Ashley Nickerson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Las Vegas. “We’ve...