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Fire crews are continuing to protect homes and businesses threatened by the fast-moving Caldor Fire as flames raced across treetops and drought-stricken vegetation amid expanded evacuation orders ...
The Caldor Fire in Northern California, which has already left two injured, exploded Tuesday morning from 6,500 acres to 53,772 acres by Wednesday morning. Caldor Fire explodes more than 8 times ...
The evacuation orders came after communities a few miles south of the lake were forced to evacuate Sunday as the Caldor Fire grew closer. As the flames neared the area, residents and visitors ...
The Caldor Fire's footprint spanned the Sierra Nevada, largely between Highways 50 and 88 The general location of the fire in Northern California The Caldor Fire was a large wildfire that burned 221,835 acres (89,773 hectares) in the Eldorado National Forest and other areas of the Sierra Nevada in El Dorado , Amador , and Alpine County ...
On lands under CAL FIRE's jurisdictional protection (i.e. not federal or local responsibility areas), the majority of wildfire ignitions since 1980 have been caused by humans. The four most common ignition sources for wildfires on CAL FIRE-protected lands are, in order: equipment use, powerlines, arson, and lightning. [10]
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) [2] [3] is the fire department of the California Natural Resources Agency in the U.S. state of California.It is responsible for fire protection in various areas under state responsibility totaling 31 million acres, as well as the administration of the state's private and public forests.
Imagery captured by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite GOES-17 showed wildfire activity and smoke dispersal over northern California on August 30.This footage ...
The Caldor Fire in southern California has now stretched to more than 168,000 acres and evacuation orders are growing, driving out the residents of a local hospital.