The message from the 24/7 Mt Rose Ski Tahoe summit web camera now indicates: “The webcam that you are attempting to view appears to be offline. Please contact the owner of this camera and let them know about the issue.”
Above, some of the last images the Mt Rose webcams had before going dark, with a highway view of Slide Mountain on fire from this morning below.
A Twitter user wrote: “Hope they can save Sky Tavern too. One of the last places around a kid can affordably learn to ski and also an amazing MTB area. If it goes, it will be tough for it to come back.”
Another wrote of the Mt. Rose resort: “Hopefully not the last pics ever… getting nervous. Using the snowmaking equipment as sprinklers. “
Pictures shared on that platform from early this morning show the fire raging on middle sections of Slide Mountain.
There is still no reported containment of the Davis Fire with heavy timber still being burned.
Several thousand NV Energy customers remain without power, while there are a handful of active gofundmes for residents who lost their homes in the early stages of the fire inside and near the Davis Creek Regional Park.
The forecast for today has temperatures above 70 degrees at Sky Tavern, and 60 degrees in higher elevations with wind speeds up to 15 mph.
Red flag warnings have been issued for the area for today and Wednesday, with low humidity and even higher gusts of wind which can cause this type of fire to grow in size and intensity.
The Davis Fire is now in its fourth day after erupting Saturday afternoon, leading to an evacuation map which spread into parts of south Reno.
Nine schools will remain closed in Washoe County today across south Reno and Incline after all school kids in the district were kept home yesterday.