Unless You Were Going Camping in California
by Bob Walsh
The
U S Forest Service has closed all national forest property in CA to
visitors over this coming weekend due to extremely high fire danger.
The
entire city of South Lake Tahoe is under mandatory fire evacuation as
they are very much afraid the fire will top the crest and start burning
rapidly towards the city. Yesterday the smoke was so bad even fire
trucks could not get over Echo Summit due to low visibility.
Hwy 88 is now closed.
The
Caldor fire is at the point where it may very well get away from it's
minimal control lines (13%, down from 19%) and pretty much destroy the
Tahoe Basin and 15,000 homes. The wind was not being helpful today
(Mon) and is expected to do the same tomorrow. The people under mandatr
The
Dixie Fire is also growing, though much more slowly than previously.
It is moving towards Lake Davis with mandatory evacuation orders issued
for the area.
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