GRANTS PASS — A firefighter on a massive range fire in southeastern Oregon suffered minor burns after she crawled inside her emergency fire shelter in an area overrun by swirling winds filled with fire, fire information officers said Monday.

The woman was treated Sunday evening at a hospital in Winnemucca, Nev., for minor burns to a leg and forearm and minor smoke inhalation. Her name and home base were not released. The rest of her 20-person crew made it to a safety zone. The incident is under investigation, and the crew has been pulled off the fire for counseling, fire spokesman Chris Rose said.

The Holloway Fire has burned 525 square miles in remote and rugged country straddling the Oregon-Nevada border since it was started by lightning Aug. 6.

On the Nevada side, five ranches were evacuated Sunday evening in the Kings River Valley about 10 miles southeast of Denio, Nev. There was no immediate word on whether residents were allowed back home.

The remote blaze was burning through forage for cattle and habitat for sage grouse and bighorn sheep.

Containment Thursday

The fire was about half contained and fire bosses expected to have it fully contained by Thursday. That will mean building 45 miles of fire line, much of it with bulldozers, fire spokeswoman Alexis West said.

The crew was digging fire line with hand tools through sage brush and grass in steep terrain near Oregon Canyon Creek, Rose said. The area is about 30 miles east of Fields.

Swirling winds from a storm cell hit the fire line, driving fire in all directions and creating dust-devils filled with burning debris, West said.

Sent to Utah burn center

As a precaution, the injured firefighter was being sent to a burn center in Salt Lake City for evaluation, Rose said.

Elsewhere in Nevada, more than 1,500 firefighters were battling at least 10 wildfires, many sparked by lightning strikes from storms tracking across the northern part of the state.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said Sunday that he was asking the federal government to help fund efforts to battle the wildfires, including several that were still burning inside fire lines after being declared contained in July.

He noted that while homes weren’t damaged, vast areas of wildlife and sage grouse habitat were affected and ranchers faced economic losses.

Other Oregon fires

Oregon had three other wildfires going.

The Ten Mile Complex was 70 percent contained after burning 22 square miles on federal land three miles northeast of McDermitt, Nev.

The Fort Complex was 10 percent contained after burning nearly three square miles on the Klamath and Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests in the Siskiyou Mountains, along the Oregon-California border. The area is about 10 miles northwest of Happy Camp, Calif.

The Buckhead Complex was 25 percent contained after burning 185 acres in the Cascade Range two miles north of Westfir.