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Lake Tahoe was threatened by a big fire, more ordered to escape

Lake Tahoe was threatened by a big fire, more ordered to escape
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South Lake Tahoe: The fire officer ordered more evacuation near Lake Tahoe and told other residents to be ready to go as a destructive fire roaring through the Southwest Forest of Alpine lake which stradded the California-Nevada State line.
Some communities south of the lake were suddenly ordered to evacuate Sunday afternoon and residents on the south and southwest coast of the lake were warned to be ready to evacuate if ordered.
Meyers community, south of small tourist cities in South Lake Tahoe, including those who were evacuated.
Many people seem to leave early, possibly because of the terrible smoke that has created horrendous air quality, Keith Wade’s fire spokesman said, who said he watched people leave.
The fire destroyed several Sunday residences along Highway 50, one of the main routes to the southern end of the lake.
The fire also roared through Sierra-At-Tahoe’s ski resort, destroying secondary buildings but leaving the main buildings at the intact base.
“Today is a difficult day and there is no bone about it,” Jeff Marsoleis, forest supervisor for El Dorado National Forest, said Sunday night.
A few days ago, he thought the crew could stop the progress of the Eastern Caldor Fire, but “today released it.” The fire stirred in the mountains just a few miles southwest of Tahoe’s basin, where thick smoke sent tourist packaging during the summer vacation would usually swing full on Labor Day weekend.
“To put it in perspective, we have seen about half a mile of movements in the perimeter of fire every day for the past few weeks, and today, this has moved at 2.5 miles to us, without the sign starting to slow down,” said Head of the Fire Division Cal Erich Schwab.
Some areas in the North California field are very rude so the crew must carry a fire hose by hand from highway 50 because they try to extinguish the fire caused by uncertain winds.
Forecasts do not offer optimism: Three-digit temperatures are possible and extreme heat is expected to last several days.
Warning the red flag for critical fire conditions is issued for Monday and Tuesday throughout the North Sierra.
The Blaze broke on August 14 was 19% contained after burning nearly 245 square miles – a larger area of ​​Chicago.
More than 600 structures have been destroyed and at least 18,000 are more under threat.
The Caldor fire has proven to be very difficult to fight with the fire manager pushing back the date projected for full detention from the beginning of this week until September 8.
But even the estimate was weak.
In southern California, part, Interstate 15, was closed on Sunday afternoon after the wind pushed new fire, nicknamed the train fire, across the path in Cajon passing northeast Los Angeles.
Further south, the evacuation and warning orders are still valid for remote communities after the fire broke and spread rapidly through the Cleveland National Forest on Saturday.
Firefighters received a minor injury and two structures were destroyed in the Chaparral 2.3-Mil square fire extinguisher along the Border of the State of San Diego and Riverside, according to the Ministry of Forestry and the protection of the California fire.
It’s 10% containing Sundays.
Meanwhile, Dixie Fire California, the second largest in the history of the country in 1,193 square miles was 48% contained in the area of ​​Sierra-cascades about 65 miles north of Caldor Fire.
Nearly 700 houses were among almost 1,300 buildings that had been destroyed since the fire began in early July.
Detention increased to 22% in the 12-day French API, which included more than 38 square miles (98 square kilometers) in Sierra Nevada Selatan.
The crew of a protected forest house on the west side of Lake Isabella, a popular recreation area in northeast Bakersfield.
More than a dozen major fires were being fought by more than 15,200 firefighters in California.
The fire has destroyed around 2,000 structures and forced thousands to evacuate this year while enveloping large western plots in unhealthy smoke.
California’s fire was among almost 90 large blazes in M.
Many existed in the West, burning trees and brushing with drought.
Climate change has made the area warmer and more dried in the past 30 years and will continue to make more extreme weather and forest fires is more destructive, according to scientists.
The Defense Department sent 200 US Army soldiers from Washington State and Equipment including eight Air Force C-130 aircraft to help firefighters in North California, The U.S.
Army North said in a statement on Saturday.
The C-130 has been converted into air tankers who can throw thousands of water gallons on fire.

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