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"Today's been a rough day and there's no bones about it," Jeff Marsoleis, forest supervisor for El Dorado National Forest, said Sunday evening. Lake Tahoe Threatened by Massive Fire, More Ordered ...
A huge firefighting force gathered to defend communities near Lake Tahoe from a wildfire is being hampered by difficult weather conditions. The wind-driven Caldor Fire crossed highways and burned ...
A few days ago, he thought crews could halt the Caldor Fire's eastern progress, but “today it let loose." Flames churned through mountains just a few miles southwest of the Tahoe Basin, where ...
Luther Pass (el. 7,740 ft. / 2,359 m) is a mountain pass in California in the Sierra Nevada, between the Carson River basin to the southeast and Lake Tahoe to the northwest. . It is traversed by State Route 89 [1] and lies on the boundary between Alpine County (in the Carson River basin) and El Dorado County (in the Tahoe area).
Thousands of people rushed to leave South Lake Tahoe as the entire resort city came under evacuation orders and wildfire raced toward Lake Tahoe, a large freshwater lake straddling California and ...
It starts from U.S. Route 395 near Topaz Lake, winding its way up to the 8,314-foot (2,534 m) Monitor Pass, down to the Carson River, and up again over the 7,740-foot (2,359 m) Luther Pass. From that point on, the route generally loses elevation on its way past Lake Tahoe , through Tahoe and Plumas National Forests until Lake Almanor .
The Luscombe 8A aircraft's GPS transponder showed that the plane was in a mountainous area near Luther Pass, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of South Lake Tahoe. 2 dead in single-engine plane ...
It then threatened the communities of Meyers and South Lake Tahoe, causing evacuations to be ordered for more than 20,000 people before the fire's progress was halted. [6] The Caldor Fire was the third-largest and second-most-destructive of the 2021 season in California, and is the seventeenth-largest and sixteenth-most destructive in recorded ...