Smoke from California fire prompts Las Vegas air advisory

Rachel Luna/The Sun / AP

Heavy smoke looms up over Lake Gregory and mountaintop homes in Crestline, Calif., as a wildfire threatens the San Bernardino Mountains village about 55 miles east of Los Angeles Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016. A massive plume of smoke could be seen blowing north toward the Mojave Desert.

Associated Press

Monday, Aug. 8, 2016 | 10:33 a.m.

Smoke from a growing wildfire in the mountains of Southern California is casting a hazy pall in Las Vegas, more than 200 miles away.

Clark County officials on Monday issued an air quality advisory due to smoke from the 7-square-mile blaze in the San Bernardino National Forest.

Fire officials estimated containment at just 5 percent on the wildfire that erupted shortly after noon Sunday in the San Bernardino Mountains above the high-desert city of Hesperia. That's about 60 miles northeast of Los Angeles.

The air advisory is in effect in Southern Nevada through Tuesday.

The Clark County Department of Air Quality says air is unhealthy for sensitive groups, including young children, senior citizens people and with respiratory problems and cardiac disease.