![]() Porter said after flames reached Twin Bridges and the Sierra-at-Tahoe ski area, fire was now inside the Tahoe basin with spot fires happening in Lower Echo Lake, Aloha Lake and Desolation Wilderness areas. Also it sucks in oxygen from all directions, put fires and spot fires in all directions. All of a sudden, there's that plume of heat and steam that comes out, same thing happens on a fire. But then when the air clears, it's like taking a lid off of your pot of boiling water. I reported last week about how we have effectively an inversion that puts kind of a lid on fire activity. It's been burning in heavy timber, just very, very difficult conditions," said Porter. "Difficult road conditions, hard to access. All residents were instructed to leave the area east on Highway 50 towards Nevada.ĪLSO READ: Caldor Fire Threatens Beloved Camp Concord on Shore of Lake Tahoe Three firefighters and two civilians have suffered injuries and a Galt police officer en route to help with law enforcement in the fire zone was killed in an accident.Īt 11 a.m., the lower Lake Tahoe Basin area was ordered to evacuate. Authorities said the fire charred some of the land and surrounding trees, but fire crews were able to save all of the resort's buildings and believe all of the chair lifts are still intact.Īs of Monday evening, the raging fire grew to more than 186,568 acres and was 15 percent contained. They could be seen carrying backpacks and duffel bags with their belongings to where evacuation buses would be departing the area.Įvacuation centers have been set up at the Douglas County Community Center at 1329 Waterloo Lane in Gardnerville, Nevada and at the Truckee Veterans Hall at 10214 High Street in Truckee.Īt the Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort, crews turned snow-making machines into makeshift fire hoses. The only people still present were those residents who didn't have cars to evacuate from the area. ![]() ![]() Nielsen later reported from the mostly deserted streets of South Lake Tahoe once the fire began spotting over the summit. tvtdXap1HU- Katie Nielsen August 31, 2021 Winds are trying to blow the fire over the summit and down toward the #TahoeBasin. Here's what's happening at #EchoSummit on the #CaldorFiee. "I'm a physician and so my whole medical home office where I had to work for the last year is now squeezed into the back of the car," said Cottrell, as flames surrounded his neighborhood. The 77-year-old waited until the last minute to leave his home just south of Meyers, turning on the sprinklers and packing up whatever he could There were reports that the fire was moving into the southern end of Meyers Monday evening. SOUTH LAKE TAHOE (CBS SF) - A wall of flames from the Caldor Fire roared over Echo Summit at Highway 50 Monday evening, racing down the mountainside toward the Lake Tahoe Basin where thousands of residents were forced to flee their homes in a mass exodus that clogged the few routes out of the region.įlames burned on both sides of the winding downward slope of Highway 50 - a familiar stretch of roadway to visitors traveling to Tahoe - into Highway 89 and Meyers.
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