COLEVILLE, Calif. (AP) -- A fire along the eastern Sierra Nevada that had threatened Marine Corps housing grew to about 2,100 acres Sunday but no longer threatened structures, officials said.
Higher humidity and cooler temperatures helped firefighters, who got the fire 45 percent contained, fire information officer Franklin Pemberton said.
No major injuries were reported.
Pemberton said helicopters and air tankers helped keep the fire well away from homes in the Coleville area, about 70 miles south of Reno, Nev. Earlier, officials were concerned the fire could reach a housing unit north of Coleville used by the U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center.
The fire still threatened habitat for mule deer and the threatened Lahontan cutthroat trout, Pemberton said.
There was no estimated containment date for the blaze, which was burning in brush and pinon-juniper forests.
