![]() Three firefighters and two civilians were injured in recent days. bgclt In partnership with the City of South Lake Tahoe Fire Department and Barton Hospital, the Club is delighted to announce that we will be holding a 5-11 years COVID-19 vaccination clinic today and tomorrow afternoon. Nearly 4,200 personnel and a squadron of over two dozen water-dropping helicopters were assigned to the blaze, whose cause remained under investigation. Noah Berger / AP Ken Breslin was stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic. Authorities across the state line in Douglas County, Nevada, warned residents to be ready to flee at a moment’s notice.Īs of Wednesday the Caldor fire had destroyed at least 729 structures, most of them single-family homes, with 34,800 more buildings considered threatened, Cal Fire said. Seen from South Lake Tahoe, Calif., flames from the Caldor Fire leap along a hillside above Christmas Valley on Monday. The fire has consumed more than 216,000 acres, and transformed South Lake Tahoe into a ghost town when the impending flames forced residents to flee. As the fire crept toward the Nevada state line, officials expanded the area under evacuation orders to include more of California’s sparsely populated Alpine County, on the border. The National Weather Service posted a red-flag warning for dangerously gusty winds of up to 45 mph and extremely low humidity for the Tahoe area through Wednesday night.Įvacuations that had been ordered in and around South Lake Tahoe remained in effect. 'Thats the concern with the incoming rain coming atop that snow, were doubling and tripling a lot of that weight,' said Jim Drennan, South Lake Tahoes fire chief. ![]() The blazes have been stoked by extremely hot, dry conditions that experts say are symptomatic of climate change. The Caldor fire was among nearly two dozen raging across California and scores of others elsewhere in the West, during a summer fire season shaping up as one of the most destructive on record. CA Snowstorm Damages Dozens of Buildings.
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