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The Angora Fire was a 2007 wind-driven wildfire in El Dorado County, California.It started near North Upper Truckee Road subdivision near Angora Lakes, Fallen Leaf Lake, Echo Lake and South Lake Tahoe, California around 2:15 p.m. on Sunday, June 24, 2007, as a result of an illegal campfire. [1]
Angora Fire of 2007 Perimeter map, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit. The so-called "Angora Fire" started around 1:00 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2007, at the southern end of remote heavily forested land below Angora Ridge Road and extended from Meyers and Fallen Leaf Lake on the south and west to Camp Richardson near Lake Tahoe's southern shore ...
Nearly 1,000 structures have been destroyed in the fire near Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada border, including 776 homes. ... Nearly 1,000 structures have been destroyed in the fire near Lake ...
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 ...
The fire was first reported at 2 p.m. Monday near Bear Valley Road in the Tahoe National Forest south of Sierra Brooks in Sierra County. As of Wednesday, it was within 1 mile of Sierra Brooks and ...
By August 30, it had reached Echo Summit, less than five miles (8.0 km) from South Lake Tahoe. While South Lake Tahoe remained at the evacuation warning stage during early morning briefings that day, the entire city of 22,000 people was ordered to evacuate at 10:59 a.m. [17] Due to the focused efforts of fire crews aggressively thinning nearby ...
Evacuation orders for the Sierra Brooks area were lifted 4 p.m. Thursday.
In 1899 President William McKinley created the Lake Tahoe Forest Reserve, becoming the core of later National Forest Lands in the Tahoe Basin. Three separate forests were developed out of the reserve, the Tahoe, Eldorado and Toiyabe National Forests. Each of these forests extended into the basin and managed separate sections.