South Lake Tahoe: The better weather has slowed the growth of Wildfire Huge California near the Lake Tahoe resort community, said the July authorities.
The fire Caldor remained just a few miles from the city of South Tahoe, which was vacated by 22,000 residents a few days ago, along with casinos and shops across the country line in Nevada, but no significant fire activities occurred since Thursday, officials said.
The Ernst team, the head of the operation, said the fire official was carefully optimistic about the “lot of hard work” by firefighters for the past two weeks.
The fire of almost 333-miles of square (862 kilometers) did not make significant progress and did not challenge the detention line in the long part of the perimeter, but Ernst said “the risk is still out there” with some of the remaining heat.
The crew restored the utility service, knocked down dangerous trees and extinguished burning hot spots to prepare certain areas for repopulation, but the timeline to allow the population back to their homes remained unclear, said Captain Parker Wilbourn, a spokesman for the Ministry of Forestry California and fire protection .
“At this point, we don’t know.
We do everything we can to mop the fire and clean the area that needs to be cleaned,” Wilbourn said.
The fire has been pushed northeast in a course that leads to the southern lake Tahoe for days with the southwestern wind, but the pattern ends this week.
A calmer wind and increased moisture Thursday and Friday help the crew increase fire detention to 29%.
“The trend is very positive in connection with the weather,” said Dean Gould, a forest service administrator U.S.
“It’s very big for us.
Let’s take full advantage when we have this window.” With the fire grows at the smallest level in two weeks, he said, “things clearly towards the right direction for us.” In the midst of a positive prospect, Jim Dudley’s meteorological incident warned that the air mass in Sierra Nevada dried downslope every night and then covered up during the day and that Medan Ridges and a deep canyon could make the wind entered “.” Just because we do not have wind conditions The red flag on the fire, the threat of the wind is still there and everything is located, “he warned.
The fire – which began August 14, was named after the road where he began and went berserk through a very plated and excessive area – still considered a threat to more Of the 30,000 homes, businesses and other buildings ranging from cabins to ski resorts.
The residents who were forced to escape from South Tahoe’s lake earlier this week were still evacuated along with people in all states in Douglas County, Nevada.
The resort area can be easily It accommodates 100,000 people on a busy weekend but very empty before Labor Day weekend.
The W Ildfire handles a big blow to the economy which is very dependent on tourism and is starting to recover this summer from the shutdown pandemic.
“This is a big blow for our local business and workers who rely on income to pay rent and put food on their table,” said Devin Middlebrook, the Mayor of Pro-Tem from South Lake Tahoe.
He said the closure would also hurt the city, because it received a large portion of his income to pay for police and fire services, as well as road maintenance, from hotel tax and sales tax.
Friday’s forecast called for a lighter wind but also a very dry daytime weather, with heating trends throughout the weekend when high pressure was built on the West, the fire was said.
More than 15,000 firefighters were struggling with dozens of Blaze California who had destroyed at least 1,500 houses.
One of the APIs, Fire Dixie, about 65 miles (105 kilometers) North Fire Caldor.
This is the second largest fire in the history of the country around 1,350 square miles (3,496 square kilometers) and 55% contained.
California increasingly experienced a greater forest fires in recent years because climate change has made the Westers warmer and drier for the past 30 years.
Scientists say the weather will continue to be more extreme and forest fires more often, destructive and unpredictable.
No deaths reported so far this fire season.