Plane crash ignites wild fire in US state of Nevada
Los Angeles, Sep 4 : A wild fire ignited by a plane crash burned 80 acres (0.32 square km) on Mountain Rose, a popular recreation place located in northern US state of Nevada.
According to inter-state incident information system InciWeb, till Monday morning, the wild fire, dubbed "Slide Fire", had spread to 80 acres with 10 percent contained after a small airplane or engine-driven recreational aircraft crashed Sunday on the extremely rough steep mountain, Xinhua reported.
There were 160 people fighting the fire. Firefighters were helped by four helicopters, two scoopers, four air tankers and two single engine tankers.
Video posted online Monday showed that air tankers filled up with water from the Lake Tahoe nearby responded to the fire which was first reported around 2.15 p.m. Sunday.
InciWeb said no structures were threatened.
A family hiking in the Slide Mountain area Sunday afternoon told local KOLO 8 news channel that they heard an explosion, saw a glider spiraling to the ground and then heard another explosion.
Fire officials said an aircraft crash caused the fire but did not said what kind of aircraft since search and rescue crews are not able to reach the scene before the wild fire is full contained.
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Fake notes with 'movie shooting purpose only' written on them send police into tizzy in Sirsi
Sirsi (Karnataka), Apr 8 (PTI): The police in Uttar Kannada went into a tizzy on Tuesday after they found fake currency notes of Rs 500 denomination from a house in Dandeli with 'movie shooting purpose only' written on them.
Based on a tip-off, police searched a rented house at Gandhinagar in Dandeli and confiscated the fake currency notes along with a money counting machine.
Arshad Khan, who is said to be from Goa, was staying as a tenant in the house belonging to Noorjan Jhunjuwadkar, police said.
Police were informed after Jhunjuwadkar noticed that Khan was absent from the house for the past one month.
The fake currency notes had the inscription 'Reverse Bank of India' on them, but did not have the signature of the RBI governor, police said.
The notes were printed on a shining paper with only zeros written in the place of the number, and 'movie shooting purpose only' inscribed on them, police said.
A hunt is on to trace Khan to question him about the seizure, they added.
