![]() ![]() 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. Gerren said the department will keep the old fireboat, but that it will be mostly used for additional support to help protect the 3-mile-long, 1-mile-wide lake.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. ![]() The new fireboat cost about $268,000, of which $250,000 was funded by El Dorado County. The department’s old boat didn’t provide firefighters with a sufficient water supply and was more the 20 years old, Gerren added. With the new boat, firefighters can douse a fire from the lake or connect hoses to it while attacking fires on land. Gerren said having a boat capable of supplying large amounts of water is critical to protecting the mountainous region, especially since several lakeside houses can only be accessed on foot or by water. “And that’s primarily what it’s used for.” However, its main purpose isn’t to zip around the lake, said Jerry Atherton, founder of Lake Assault Boats. At full speed, the vessel burns through about 55 gallons of fuel per hour. ![]()
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