SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Aug 31 — Residents and tourists in communities near Lake Tahoe fled yesterday as a fierce, 2-week-old wildfire roared closer to the popular resort destination through drought-parched forests in northern California’s Sierra Nevada mountains.
A similar closure of all 18 national forests in California was imposed last September due to what the Forest Service then called “unprecedented and historic” fire conditions. In its latest announcement, the agency cited “fire behaviour that is beyond the norm of our experience.” The so-called Caldor blaze near Lake Tahoe has emerged as one of the most destructive and disruptive this summer, spreading across more than 177,000 acres since August 14, with firefighters managing to carve containment lines around just 14 per cent of its perimetre as of yesterday.
Evacuation orders were issued for several areas, including a portion of El Dorado County south of Lake Tahoe, which straddles the California-Nevada border and is a beloved area for swimming, boating, hiking and camping. The area also is home to popular ski resorts in winter. “We’ve never seen anything like this. The kids were crying,” Panchal, 42, told Reuters as he, his wife, their two children and his in-laws prepared to drive off through smoke he said was already hurting his throat.
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