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Hot and gusty weather and lightning storms threatened to boost the danger that the fires will keep growing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The McKinney Fire near the state line with Oregon \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/photos/CAKNF/2022-07-29-1953-McKinney-Fire/related_files/pict20220701-115129-0.pdf\">exploded to more than 55,000 acres\u003c/a> after erupting Friday in the Klamath National Forest, firefighting officials said. It is California’s largest wildfire of the year so far and officials have not determined the cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SiskiyouCountySheriff/posts/pfbid0G99aodzEqYJ5rf3rN8kmEdZZA96WzTF7gCB6cdf7o9diYCkpDUMhaMMWWUe67veDl\">The vehicle and the bodies were found Sunday morning in the driveway of a residence\u003c/a> near the remote community of Klamath River, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 5,000 Northern California homes and other structures were threatened and an unknown number of buildings have burned, said Adrienne Freeman, a spokesperson for the U.S. Forest Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The smoky blaze cast an eerie, orange-brown hue in one neighborhood where a brick chimney stood surrounded by rubble and scorched vehicles on Sunday. Flames torched trees along State Route 96 and raced through hillsides in sight of homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11834901\" hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighting crews on the ground were trying to prevent the blaze from moving closer to the town of Yreka, population about 7,500. The blaze was about four miles away as of Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/07/30/governor-newsom-proclaims-state-of-emergency-in-siskiyou-county-due-to-mckinney-and-other-fires/\">declared a state of emergency\u003c/a> as the McKinney Fire intensified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire \"destroyed homes, threatened critical infrastructure and forced the evacuation of almost 2,000 residents,\" Newsom's office wrote, in a statement. The proclamation allows Newsom more flexibility to coordinate emergency response and recovery effort decisions and to access federal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/McKinneyFire?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#McKinneyFire\u003c/a> is so intense it’s creating its own weather — pyrocumulonimbus clouds which can generate lightning (starting new fires) and strong winds (spreading existing fires)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>50,000+ acres already burned near the CA/OR border 🔥\u003ca href=\"https://t.co/xDFvNRpSlu\">pic.twitter.com/xDFvNRpSlu\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Chase Cain (@ChaseCainNBC) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ChaseCainNBC/status/1553844640704446465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2022\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A second, smaller fire in the region that was sparked by dry lightning Saturday threatened the tiny California community of Seiad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman said “there has been significant damage and loss along the Highway 96 corridor” that runs parallel to the Klamath River and is one of the few roads in and out of the region\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added: “But just how much damage is still being assessed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erratic storms were expected to move through Northern California again on Monday with lightning that threatened to spark new fires in bone-dry vegetation, forecasters said. A day earlier, thunderstorms caused Southern California flash flooding that damaged roads in Death Valley National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mandatory \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/McKinneyFire?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#McKinneyFire\u003c/a> evacuation orders are in effect for a roughly 40-by-40-mile area in Siskiyou County, along the Oregon border. County's evacuation map:\u003ca href=\"https://t.co/plkX66tzwG\">https://t.co/plkX66tzwG\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/u5bJgYslaI\">pic.twitter.com/u5bJgYslaI\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Dan Brekke (@danbrekke) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/danbrekke/status/1553829149839568896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2022\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, California law enforcement knocked on doors to urge residents to get out and safely evacuate their livestock onto trailers. Automated calls were being sent to land phone lines as well because there were areas without cell phone service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are asking people to evacuate. The area is very rural,\" said Roxanne Strangfeld with Siskiyou County Probation in a video \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SiskiyouSheriff/status/1553851762657742848?s=20&t=ggN44Run5QXu0ChI6zQSZA\">posted on Twitter\u003c/a>. \"We are noticing that there are quite a few people helping each other, which is a really wonderful thing in this time of lots of stress.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pacific Coast Trail Association urged hikers to get to the nearest town while the U.S. Forest Service closed a 110-mile section of the trail from the Etna Summit to the Mt. Ashland Campground in southern Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The McKinney Fire also closed about 30 miles of State Route 96 between Scott River Road, which leads into the Klamath National Forest and State Route 263, about 10 miles northwest of Yreka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire departments in the Bay Area sent firefighters to Siskiyou County to help contain the McKinney Fire and nearby wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives approved wide-ranging legislation aimed at helping communities in the West cope with increasingly severe wildfires and drought — fueled by climate change — that have caused billions of dollars of damage to homes and businesses in recent years. The measure combines 49 separate bills and would increase firefighter pay and benefits, boost resiliency and mitigation projects for communities affected by climate change, protect watersheds, and make it easier for wildfire victims to get federal assistance.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Roxanne Strangfeld, Siskiyou County Probation Department\"]'We are noticing that there are quite a few people helping each other, which is a really wonderful thing in this time of lots of stress.'[/pullquote]House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, called the bill “a major victory for Californians — and for the country.'' The Oak Fire, the largest wildfire so far this year, “is ravaging our state,'' she said. “At the same time, countless of our communities regularly suffer lack of rainfall that can kill crops and further fuel fires.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House bill would deliver “urgently needed resources” to combat fires and droughts, \"which will only increase in frequency and intensity due to the climate crisis,'' Pelosi said. The bill includes $500 million to preserve water levels in key reservoirs in the drought-stricken Colorado River and invest in water recycling and desalination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill now goes to the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Cesar Saldaña contributed to this report. Matthew Daily from the Associated Press contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"At over 55,000 acres as of Monday morning, the McKinney Fire in Klamath National Forest in Siskiyou County is, so far, California's largest wildfire of the year.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1659395838,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":972},"headData":{"title":"McKinney Fire Grows to More Than 55,000 Acres, 2 Found Dead in Burned Vehicle | KQED","description":"At over 55,000 acres as of Monday morning, the McKinney Fire in Klamath National Forest in Siskiyou County is, so far, California's largest wildfire of the year.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"McKinney Fire Grows to More Than 55,000 Acres, 2 Found Dead in Burned Vehicle","datePublished":"2022-07-31T23:43:18.000Z","dateModified":"2022-08-01T23:17:18.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11921039 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11921039","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/07/31/mckinney-fire-grows-to-more-than-50000-acres-newsom-declares-state-of-emergency/","disqusTitle":"McKinney Fire Grows to More Than 55,000 Acres, 2 Found Dead in Burned Vehicle","nprByline":"Noah Berger and Christopher Weber, Associated Press","subhead":"At over 50,000 acres as of Sunday afternoon, the McKinney Fire in Klamath National Forest in Siskiyou County is California's largest wildfire of 2022. 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It is California’s largest wildfire of the year so far and officials have not determined the cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SiskiyouCountySheriff/posts/pfbid0G99aodzEqYJ5rf3rN8kmEdZZA96WzTF7gCB6cdf7o9diYCkpDUMhaMMWWUe67veDl\">The vehicle and the bodies were found Sunday morning in the driveway of a residence\u003c/a> near the remote community of Klamath River, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 5,000 Northern California homes and other structures were threatened and an unknown number of buildings have burned, said Adrienne Freeman, a spokesperson for the U.S. Forest Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The smoky blaze cast an eerie, orange-brown hue in one neighborhood where a brick chimney stood surrounded by rubble and scorched vehicles on Sunday. Flames torched trees along State Route 96 and raced through hillsides in sight of homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11834901","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/RS44522_002_KQED_SantaCruzCo_CZULightningComplex_08202020-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighting crews on the ground were trying to prevent the blaze from moving closer to the town of Yreka, population about 7,500. The blaze was about four miles away as of Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/07/30/governor-newsom-proclaims-state-of-emergency-in-siskiyou-county-due-to-mckinney-and-other-fires/\">declared a state of emergency\u003c/a> as the McKinney Fire intensified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire \"destroyed homes, threatened critical infrastructure and forced the evacuation of almost 2,000 residents,\" Newsom's office wrote, in a statement. The proclamation allows Newsom more flexibility to coordinate emergency response and recovery effort decisions and to access federal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/McKinneyFire?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#McKinneyFire\u003c/a> is so intense it’s creating its own weather — pyrocumulonimbus clouds which can generate lightning (starting new fires) and strong winds (spreading existing fires)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>50,000+ acres already burned near the CA/OR border 🔥\u003ca href=\"https://t.co/xDFvNRpSlu\">pic.twitter.com/xDFvNRpSlu\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Chase Cain (@ChaseCainNBC) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ChaseCainNBC/status/1553844640704446465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2022\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A second, smaller fire in the region that was sparked by dry lightning Saturday threatened the tiny California community of Seiad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman said “there has been significant damage and loss along the Highway 96 corridor” that runs parallel to the Klamath River and is one of the few roads in and out of the region\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added: “But just how much damage is still being assessed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erratic storms were expected to move through Northern California again on Monday with lightning that threatened to spark new fires in bone-dry vegetation, forecasters said. A day earlier, thunderstorms caused Southern California flash flooding that damaged roads in Death Valley National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mandatory \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/McKinneyFire?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#McKinneyFire\u003c/a> evacuation orders are in effect for a roughly 40-by-40-mile area in Siskiyou County, along the Oregon border. County's evacuation map:\u003ca href=\"https://t.co/plkX66tzwG\">https://t.co/plkX66tzwG\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/u5bJgYslaI\">pic.twitter.com/u5bJgYslaI\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Dan Brekke (@danbrekke) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/danbrekke/status/1553829149839568896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2022\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, California law enforcement knocked on doors to urge residents to get out and safely evacuate their livestock onto trailers. Automated calls were being sent to land phone lines as well because there were areas without cell phone service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are asking people to evacuate. The area is very rural,\" said Roxanne Strangfeld with Siskiyou County Probation in a video \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SiskiyouSheriff/status/1553851762657742848?s=20&t=ggN44Run5QXu0ChI6zQSZA\">posted on Twitter\u003c/a>. \"We are noticing that there are quite a few people helping each other, which is a really wonderful thing in this time of lots of stress.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pacific Coast Trail Association urged hikers to get to the nearest town while the U.S. Forest Service closed a 110-mile section of the trail from the Etna Summit to the Mt. 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The measure combines 49 separate bills and would increase firefighter pay and benefits, boost resiliency and mitigation projects for communities affected by climate change, protect watersheds, and make it easier for wildfire victims to get federal assistance.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We are noticing that there are quite a few people helping each other, which is a really wonderful thing in this time of lots of stress.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Roxanne Strangfeld, Siskiyou County Probation Department","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, called the bill “a major victory for Californians — and for the country.'' The Oak Fire, the largest wildfire so far this year, “is ravaging our state,'' she said. “At the same time, countless of our communities regularly suffer lack of rainfall that can kill crops and further fuel fires.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House bill would deliver “urgently needed resources” to combat fires and droughts, \"which will only increase in frequency and intensity due to the climate crisis,'' Pelosi said. The bill includes $500 million to preserve water levels in key reservoirs in the drought-stricken Colorado River and invest in water recycling and desalination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill now goes to the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Cesar Saldaña contributed to this report. 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Damage inspection continues throughout the fire’s perimeter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials on Tuesday night reopened Highway 140, one of the main routes leading into Yosemite National Park, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ground crews with air support got a break from increased humidity and lower temperatures earlier this week as monsoonal moisture moved through the Sierra Nevada foothills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_1965575\" label=\"How to Prepare for Fire Season\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/06/GettyImages-489836785.jpg\"]\"They're definitely making good progress,\" Garcia said of firefighters on the ground, who are working in steep, rugged terrain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials were still investigating the cause of the fire that sparked last Friday southwest of the park, near the town of Midpines, sending plumes of heavy smoke drifting more than 200 miles, reaching Lake Tahoe, parts of Nevada and the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze exploded in size on Saturday, amid the worst drought in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire Battalion Chief Justin Macomb said earlier this week that from the start, the Oak Fire has behaved in unpredictable ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fire quickly outflanked us. We couldn't even attack it with the resources we had on hand,\" Macomb said, noting that it spread to areas he didn't anticipate. \"In my career I haven't seen fire behave like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/07/23/governor-newsom-proclaims-state-of-emergency-in-mariposa-county-due-to-oak-fire/\">declared a state of emergency\u003c/a> in Mariposa County, as the blaze exploded. Pacific Gas and Electric on Sunday said it had shut off power to some 3,100 homes and businesses in the area, with no indication of when it would be restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has experienced increasingly larger and deadlier wildfires in recent years as climate change has made the West much warmer and drier over the past 30 years. Scientists have said weather will continue to be more extreme and wildfires more frequent, destructive and unpredictable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MissElle0h/status/1552339651783888896\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oak Fire was sparked as firefighters continued to make progress against an earlier, nearby blaze, the Washburn Fire, that burned to the edge of a grove of giant sequoias in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park. The 4,800-acre fire was more than 90% contained after burning for over two weeks and moving into the Sierra National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The story includes reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With roughly a third of the blaze contained, some 3,800 people were allowed to return to their homes starting Tuesday, with another 2,200 residents still under evacuation orders.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1658955173,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":559},"headData":{"title":"Thousands Allowed to Return Home, As Crews Make Steady Gains Against Oak Fire Near Yosemite | KQED","description":"With roughly a third of the blaze contained, some 3,800 people were allowed to return to their homes starting Tuesday, with another 2,200 residents still under evacuation orders.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Thousands Allowed to Return Home, As Crews Make Steady Gains Against Oak Fire Near Yosemite","datePublished":"2022-07-27T20:00:29.000Z","dateModified":"2022-07-27T20:52:53.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11920346 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11920346","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/07/27/the-oak-fire-near-yosemite-national-park-forces-evacuations-in-mariposa-county/","disqusTitle":"Thousands Allowed to Return Home, As Crews Make Steady Gains Against Oak Fire Near Yosemite","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11920346/the-oak-fire-near-yosemite-national-park-forces-evacuations-in-mariposa-county","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 10:30 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters have significantly slowed the spread of a raging wildfire near Yosemite National Park, allowing officials to lift some evacuation orders for residents of remote mountain communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Wednesday morning,\u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2022/7/22/oak-fire/\"> the Oak Fire in Mariposa County\u003c/a>, the state's largest wildfire so far this year, had churned through nearly 19,000 acres of tinder-dry trees and brush, as an army of more than 3,100 firefighters working around the clock made steady gains, with 32% of the blaze now contained, Cal Fire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 3,800 people were allowed to return to their homes starting Tuesday, with another 2,200 residents still under evacuation orders, according to Cal Fire spokesperson Chris Garcia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 74 houses and other structures have been destroyed.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9cdac8da837f4ef3b9abd8d0a67ec7d4&\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Firefighters worked overnight to increase containment lines around the fire perimeter,\" a Wednesday morning Cal Fire status report said. \"Crews continue work around communities, patrolling for hot spots, providing structure defense, and building of direct fire line in very steep and rugged terrain. Damage inspection continues throughout the fire’s perimeter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials on Tuesday night reopened Highway 140, one of the main routes leading into Yosemite National Park, the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ground crews with air support got a break from increased humidity and lower temperatures earlier this week as monsoonal moisture moved through the Sierra Nevada foothills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1965575","label":"How to Prepare for Fire Season ","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/06/GettyImages-489836785.jpg"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"They're definitely making good progress,\" Garcia said of firefighters on the ground, who are working in steep, rugged terrain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials were still investigating the cause of the fire that sparked last Friday southwest of the park, near the town of Midpines, sending plumes of heavy smoke drifting more than 200 miles, reaching Lake Tahoe, parts of Nevada and the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze exploded in size on Saturday, amid the worst drought in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire Battalion Chief Justin Macomb said earlier this week that from the start, the Oak Fire has behaved in unpredictable ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fire quickly outflanked us. We couldn't even attack it with the resources we had on hand,\" Macomb said, noting that it spread to areas he didn't anticipate. \"In my career I haven't seen fire behave like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/07/23/governor-newsom-proclaims-state-of-emergency-in-mariposa-county-due-to-oak-fire/\">declared a state of emergency\u003c/a> in Mariposa County, as the blaze exploded. Pacific Gas and Electric on Sunday said it had shut off power to some 3,100 homes and businesses in the area, with no indication of when it would be restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has experienced increasingly larger and deadlier wildfires in recent years as climate change has made the West much warmer and drier over the past 30 years. Scientists have said weather will continue to be more extreme and wildfires more frequent, destructive and unpredictable.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1552339651783888896"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The Oak Fire was sparked as firefighters continued to make progress against an earlier, nearby blaze, the Washburn Fire, that burned to the edge of a grove of giant sequoias in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park. The 4,800-acre fire was more than 90% contained after burning for over two weeks and moving into the Sierra National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The story includes reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11920346/the-oak-fire-near-yosemite-national-park-forces-evacuations-in-mariposa-county","authors":["237"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_27626","news_787","news_31367","news_4337"],"featImg":"news_11920616","label":"news"},"news_11919221":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11919221","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11919221","score":null,"sort":[1657567021000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"yosemite-wildfire-threatens-iconic-sequoia-trees-of-mariposa-grove","title":"Yosemite Fire 22% Contained, Sequoias So Far Unharmed","publishDate":1657567021,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:00 a.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California firefighters gained ground Monday in the battle against \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-fires-california-trees-climate-and-environment-afac50730ba08092631991a7a43d9b6d\">a wildfire that poses a threat to a grove of giant sequoias and a small community\u003c/a> in Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Washburn Fire on the western flank of the Sierra Nevada had scorched about 2,700 acres but was 22% contained as of Monday night, according to an incident update.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/YosemiteFire/status/1546537638319910913\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campers and residents near the blaze were evacuated over the weekend, while the rest of the sprawling park remained open, though heavy smoke obscured scenic vistas and created unhealthy air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today it’s actually the smokiest that we’ve seen,” Nancy Phillipe, a Yosemite fire information spokesperson, said Sunday. “Up until this morning, the park has not been in that unhealthy category, but that is where we are now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 500 mature sequoias were threatened in the Mariposa Grove, but as of Saturday afternoon there were no reports of severe damage to any named trees, including the 3,000-year-old Grizzly Giant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley have been protected since President Abraham Lincoln signed legislation in 1864.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fortunately, the Mariposa Grove has a long history of prescribed burning and studies have shown that these efforts reduce the impacts of high-severity unwanted fire,” a National Park Service statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of the fire was under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the trees, the small community of Wawona, which is surrounded by park and a campground, was under threat, with people ordered to leave their homes and campsites on Friday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillipe said the park posted a video of a temporary sprinkler system installed to protect the trees. She said she’s confident that the sprinkler system combined with previous prescribed burns is the best protection for the trees. “If we were to add the additional foil protection, that would actually create a baked potato effect on the tree, and so we're not doing that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 1,600 people were evacuated, including a hotel, a campground and permanent residents. The Red Cross has set up a shelter in Mariposa, but Phillipe said most people who evacuated ended up not needing to go there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks coming into the park … just be aware that the air quality today is in the unhealthy range,” she said. “Our priorities remain: firefighters, public safety, the community of Wawona and the giant sequoias in the Mariposa Grove.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/YosemiteFire/status/1545975359341936641\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillipe also said there are crews and aerial resources, including tankers and helicopters. The fire was proving difficult to contain, with firefighters throwing “every tactic imaginable” at it, she said, adding that that included air drops of fire retardant as well as the planned use of bulldozers to create fire lines, a tactic that’s rarely used in a wilderness setting like Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bulldozers would primarily be used to put in fire lines to protect Wawona, Phillipe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/savetheredwoods/status/1545471237324804097\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though firefighters were facing hot and dry conditions, they didn’t have to contend with intense winds on Saturday, said Jeffrey Barlow, senior meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Hanford. Given the relatively small size of the fire and minimal winds, smoke impacts were not expected to stretch far beyond the park, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The giant sequoias, native in only about 70 groves spread along the western slope of California’s Sierra Nevada range, were once considered impervious to flames but have become increasingly vulnerable as wildfires fueled by a buildup of undergrowth from a century of fire suppression and drought exacerbated by climate change have become more intense and destructive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lightning-sparked wildfires over the past two years have killed up to a fifth of the estimated 75,000 large sequoias, which are the biggest trees by volume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1545805007835959296\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no obvious natural spark for the fire that broke out Thursday next to the park’s Washburn Trail, Phillipe said. Smoke was reported by visitors walking in the grove that reopened in 2018 after a $40 million renovation that took three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire had grown from 700 acres on Saturday morning to 1,600 acres on Sunday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fierce windstorm ripped through the grove a year and a half ago and toppled 15 giant sequoias, along with countless other trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The downed trees, along with massive numbers of pines killed by bark beetles, provided ample fuel for the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park has used prescribed burns to clear brush around the sequoias, which helps protect them if flames spread farther into the grove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, most evacuation orders were lifted Saturday in the Sierra foothills about 80 miles to the northwest of the Washburn Fire, where another fire broke out on July 4. The Electra Fire, which began near Jackson, was mostly contained, and only areas directly within the fire’s perimeter remained under evacuation orders, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far in 2022, over 35,000 wildfires have burned nearly 4.7 million acres in the U.S., according to the National Interagency Fire Center, well above average for both number of wildfires and acres burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Evacuations and closures\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Wawona Road (Highway 41) south of Yosemite West, and the Mariposa Grove, are closed until further notice. Wawona Road is also closed at the South Entrance north to Henness Ridge Road.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Yosemite West remains accessible via Wawona Road from the north (from Yosemite Valley). All other areas of Yosemite National Park are open.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Use Highways 140 or 120 to enter Yosemite. Expect smoky conditions within the park.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=17a559c2f1ff43269c76e49ca55aca60&extent=-13324689.9049%2C4498948.9321%2C-13308867.44%2C4524746.4291%2C102100\">A map of the evacuation area and current evacuation levels is available here.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evacuation shelter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/i9C7GyZ3vqWmTPnu9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Life Christian Fellowship, 5089 Cole Road, Mariposa, CA 95338\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been corrected to fix inaccurate information from a park spokesperson and reflects that the tree trunks are not wrapped in protective foil.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Lakshmi Sarah contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Washburn Fire has scorched about 2,700 acres but is 22% percent contained as of Monday night. The fire is a threat to more than 500 mature sequoias in the park's Mariposa Grove.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1657653238,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":1024},"headData":{"title":"Yosemite Fire 22% Contained, Sequoias So Far Unharmed | KQED","description":"The Washburn Fire has scorched about 2,700 acres but is 22% percent contained as of Monday night. The fire is a threat to more than 500 mature sequoias in the park's Mariposa Grove.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Yosemite Fire 22% Contained, Sequoias So Far Unharmed","datePublished":"2022-07-11T19:17:01.000Z","dateModified":"2022-07-12T19:13:58.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11919221 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11919221","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/07/11/yosemite-wildfire-threatens-iconic-sequoia-trees-of-mariposa-grove/","disqusTitle":"Yosemite Fire 22% Contained, Sequoias So Far Unharmed","nprByline":"The Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11919221/yosemite-wildfire-threatens-iconic-sequoia-trees-of-mariposa-grove","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:00 a.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California firefighters gained ground Monday in the battle against \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-fires-california-trees-climate-and-environment-afac50730ba08092631991a7a43d9b6d\">a wildfire that poses a threat to a grove of giant sequoias and a small community\u003c/a> in Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Washburn Fire on the western flank of the Sierra Nevada had scorched about 2,700 acres but was 22% contained as of Monday night, according to an incident update.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1546537638319910913"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campers and residents near the blaze were evacuated over the weekend, while the rest of the sprawling park remained open, though heavy smoke obscured scenic vistas and created unhealthy air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today it’s actually the smokiest that we’ve seen,” Nancy Phillipe, a Yosemite fire information spokesperson, said Sunday. “Up until this morning, the park has not been in that unhealthy category, but that is where we are now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 500 mature sequoias were threatened in the Mariposa Grove, but as of Saturday afternoon there were no reports of severe damage to any named trees, including the 3,000-year-old Grizzly Giant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley have been protected since President Abraham Lincoln signed legislation in 1864.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fortunately, the Mariposa Grove has a long history of prescribed burning and studies have shown that these efforts reduce the impacts of high-severity unwanted fire,” a National Park Service statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of the fire was under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the trees, the small community of Wawona, which is surrounded by park and a campground, was under threat, with people ordered to leave their homes and campsites on Friday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillipe said the park posted a video of a temporary sprinkler system installed to protect the trees. She said she’s confident that the sprinkler system combined with previous prescribed burns is the best protection for the trees. “If we were to add the additional foil protection, that would actually create a baked potato effect on the tree, and so we're not doing that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 1,600 people were evacuated, including a hotel, a campground and permanent residents. The Red Cross has set up a shelter in Mariposa, but Phillipe said most people who evacuated ended up not needing to go there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks coming into the park … just be aware that the air quality today is in the unhealthy range,” she said. “Our priorities remain: firefighters, public safety, the community of Wawona and the giant sequoias in the Mariposa Grove.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1545975359341936641"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Phillipe also said there are crews and aerial resources, including tankers and helicopters. The fire was proving difficult to contain, with firefighters throwing “every tactic imaginable” at it, she said, adding that that included air drops of fire retardant as well as the planned use of bulldozers to create fire lines, a tactic that’s rarely used in a wilderness setting like Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bulldozers would primarily be used to put in fire lines to protect Wawona, Phillipe said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1545471237324804097"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Though firefighters were facing hot and dry conditions, they didn’t have to contend with intense winds on Saturday, said Jeffrey Barlow, senior meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Hanford. Given the relatively small size of the fire and minimal winds, smoke impacts were not expected to stretch far beyond the park, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The giant sequoias, native in only about 70 groves spread along the western slope of California’s Sierra Nevada range, were once considered impervious to flames but have become increasingly vulnerable as wildfires fueled by a buildup of undergrowth from a century of fire suppression and drought exacerbated by climate change have become more intense and destructive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lightning-sparked wildfires over the past two years have killed up to a fifth of the estimated 75,000 large sequoias, which are the biggest trees by volume.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1545805007835959296"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>There was no obvious natural spark for the fire that broke out Thursday next to the park’s Washburn Trail, Phillipe said. Smoke was reported by visitors walking in the grove that reopened in 2018 after a $40 million renovation that took three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire had grown from 700 acres on Saturday morning to 1,600 acres on Sunday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fierce windstorm ripped through the grove a year and a half ago and toppled 15 giant sequoias, along with countless other trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The downed trees, along with massive numbers of pines killed by bark beetles, provided ample fuel for the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park has used prescribed burns to clear brush around the sequoias, which helps protect them if flames spread farther into the grove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, most evacuation orders were lifted Saturday in the Sierra foothills about 80 miles to the northwest of the Washburn Fire, where another fire broke out on July 4. The Electra Fire, which began near Jackson, was mostly contained, and only areas directly within the fire’s perimeter remained under evacuation orders, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far in 2022, over 35,000 wildfires have burned nearly 4.7 million acres in the U.S., according to the National Interagency Fire Center, well above average for both number of wildfires and acres burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Evacuations and closures\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Wawona Road (Highway 41) south of Yosemite West, and the Mariposa Grove, are closed until further notice. Wawona Road is also closed at the South Entrance north to Henness Ridge Road.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Yosemite West remains accessible via Wawona Road from the north (from Yosemite Valley). All other areas of Yosemite National Park are open.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Use Highways 140 or 120 to enter Yosemite. Expect smoky conditions within the park.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=17a559c2f1ff43269c76e49ca55aca60&extent=-13324689.9049%2C4498948.9321%2C-13308867.44%2C4524746.4291%2C102100\">A map of the evacuation area and current evacuation levels is available here.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evacuation shelter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/i9C7GyZ3vqWmTPnu9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Life Christian Fellowship, 5089 Cole Road, Mariposa, CA 95338\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been corrected to fix inaccurate information from a park spokesperson and reflects that the tree trunks are not wrapped in protective foil.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Lakshmi Sarah contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11919221/yosemite-wildfire-threatens-iconic-sequoia-trees-of-mariposa-grove","authors":["byline_news_11919221"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_27626","news_787","news_31310","news_17898","news_31312","news_31311","news_4337","news_17603","news_4746"],"featImg":"news_11919228","label":"news"},"news_11901198":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11901198","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11901198","score":null,"sort":[1641676260000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"through-the-mushroom-portal-why-mushrooms-are-popping-in-the-bay-area-and-tips-for-fungi-foraging","title":"Through the Mushroom Portal: Why Mushrooms Are Popping in the Bay Area and Tips for Fungi Foraging","publishDate":1641676260,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>In the past few weeks, the Bay Area has received a deluge of rain. In addition to replenishing groundwater and aquifers, the rain has allowed a particular species to prosper — the mushroom, our tiny little fungal friend. Mushrooms have been springing up in forests and backyards, potted plants and dark corners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all that's going on in the world, it might be easier to ignore the humble mushroom, but KQED Forum took the time to discuss finding and foraging mushrooms in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Alexis Madrigal spoke with Tony Alvarez, a member of the North American Mycological Association and leader of group foraging sessions called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/shroomywalkabout/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shroomy Walkabouts\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://paulstamets.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Stamets\u003c/a>, a renowned advocate for the ingenuity and utility of fungi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following excerpts have been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexis Madrigal: You do a lot of your work here in the Bay Area, and my assumption is that the rain has made this an absolutely banner year for mushrooms. What’s going on out there in the mushroom world?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tony Alvarez\u003c/strong>: The rain has really set off the bloom. Honestly, like I've never seen before in other years. I don't know if it's because of the fires, the cleaning of a lot of the forest floors of debris. I'm not exactly sure what's causing it — but the blooms have been astounding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm actually seeing some mushrooms that I've never seen in the Bay Area. I've only seen them up north — and I'm just seeing them in abundance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's been really, really beautiful to see these things at work and all playing their part in this beautiful ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Stamets, you have found and worked with thousands of mushrooms. Can you remember how you started your career? When did you decide that these were marvelous creatures and organisms?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Stamets\u003c/strong>: My earliest memory was when I was about 5 years old. I was pelting my twin brother with puffballs [a mushroom] and they kind of explode with this brown cloud of spores. I remember my mother coming out saying, “Don't throw puff balls … The spores will make him blind!” That actually is not true — spores won't make you blind, but that's my earliest memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children are constantly playing, and to get them in contact with nature through mushrooms — the mushroom portal, so to speak — has been a very valuable way of getting a new generation of biologists inspired about nature and protecting the ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tony, how did you go \"through the mushroom portal\"? How did you end up being someone who is now part of the North American Mycological Association?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tony Alvarez\u003c/strong>: I've always spent time in nature. I spent a lot of time alone when I was very young, so I was left to my own devices picking up rocks, turning over rocks, finding little mushrooms and whatnot. When I was in my teen years and I was gifted some magic mushrooms — that is how I went through my portal, and the connection with the mushrooms was so strong from that moment on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was very passionate about it when I was young, and kind of lost touch with it. And then I took a foraging course, and it just brought me back and I was just overwhelmed with joy, overwhelmed with love for these beautiful creatures that do so much for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CXpqvUXrhy3/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What advice do you have for young people interested in getting more involved in the field of mycology?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Stamets\u003c/strong>: I would recommend that you join a mycology society. You've got four or five really good mycology societies here in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mssf.org/\">Mycological\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.mssf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Society of San Francisco\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://bayareamushrooms.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Area Mycological Association\u003c/a> up north, \u003ca href=\"https://www.somamushrooms.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sonoma County Mycological Association\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mendocinocoastmushroomclub.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club\u003c/a>, and the [\u003ca href=\"https://ffsc.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz\u003c/a>].\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We oftentimes say it's like an adult Easter egg hunt. But children are closer to the ground. You cannot be poisoned by a mushroom by touching it. However, the caution that all of us mycologists want to give you — there are deadly poison species out there, so do not randomly go out and pick mushrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've been involved in the mycological society since I was about 15 years old, and I highly recommend that you be surrounded by others who have this knowledge. I'd be remiss not mentioning, I think the most prominent mushroom field guide is \"\u003ca href=\"http://bayareamushrooms.org/education/california_mushrooms_book_review.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Mushrooms: [The Comprehensive] Identification Guide\u003c/a>\" by Dennis E. Desjardin, Michael G. Wood and Frederick A. Stevens and then \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.shroomsupply.com/books-videos/mushrooms-demystified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mushrooms Demystified\u003c/a>\" by David Arora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are there any movements or thoughts in the mushroom community about how to best harvest mushrooms? How do we ensure that we haven't harvested 100% of the mushrooms as foraging gains popularity? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Stamets\u003c/strong>: Fantastic question. I don't have a good answer for you because I very much believe that you should leave no trace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The adage among many of us is not to pick more than 10% of the mushrooms. And with the chanterelle, we know they come up in twins. So we cut one of them rather than pull them, because when you pull them, you can abort one of the twins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tony Alvarez, member, North American Mycological Association\"]'When we go out, there's a bag for mushrooms, and there's a bag for garbage. When we're stewarding the land, as we're finding these goodies, all of us should do our part to clean up.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a great question without a clear answer. Conservation is really important. Unfortunately, some of these mushrooms are viewed as dollar bills in the ground by commercial harvesters. That being said, subsistence foraging of mushrooms is a long held tradition in Indigenous cultures all around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://davidarora.com/Home_Page.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Arora\u003c/a> studied this extensively, and it's really debatable. When you pick a mushroom, and [you're] carrying it, it's like fairy dust, you leave spore trails. And so as you carry the mushroom you're extending the habitat of those mushrooms. You can make the argument that harvesting mushrooms actually [spreads] their spores, and you can make the counterargument if you harvest, there's less spores there to spread. So the jury is out on this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's the relationship between fire and soil — especially as fire in California has been changing so quickly?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Stamets\u003c/strong>: I would defer to \u003ca href=\"https://biology.sfsu.edu/faculty/desjardin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dennis Desjardins\u003c/a>, who studied this as a professor at San Francisco State University. Fires are a natural part of the ecosystem, the evolution of ecosystems where there is not natural human habitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have this natural conflict between a natural system versus an \"unnatural system,\" albeit we can make the argument that humans are native to all the environments where we live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fire habitats, one of the first mushrooms to come up are \u003ca href=\"http://bayareamushrooms.org/mushroommonth/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">morels\u003c/a> — and morels seem to be everywhere in the forest. And they're very fragrant, so they attract animals that come in because they're fragrant. And then because these other animals eat the mushrooms, then they're attracted into these ecologically devastated ecosystems. They drop pellets to drop seeds, etcetera. So these are the harbingers of ecological recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the morels are the first appearance of an edible food for wild animals. Thus, they bring the wild animals that bring in seeds, and lead to ecological recovery. [aside tag=\"mushrooms, mycology\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> What are your thoughts on green burials and the ability to break down all matter? Have you thought about green burials for yourself whenever that time comes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Stamets\u003c/strong>: Yeah, I want to be entombed in mycelium. We have to embrace decomposition. We're all going to get there. So the phrase I use a lot is: Let it rot. We have this sort of view of nature, making it all clean and the yards spick and span. But it's that neighbor who has a chaotic environment that has all these debris, fields and brushes and all these highly fractalized environments that give these habitats all these organisms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept here is — we all decompose into soil, and this speaks to Indigenous knowledge and the belief that the soil is a living organism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Last thing, kind of a funny one. [KQED listener] Pete tweets, \"Did the 'Star Trek: Discovery' writers, the show, name the mycelial network navigator after you, Paul Stamets?\" \u003cem>Editor's note\u003c/em>: \"Star Trek: Discovery\" is the newest iteration of the show \"Star Trek,\" which premiered in 2017 and has a science officer named Commander Paul Stamets, played by Anthony Rapp, who helps starships travel along interdimensional pathways made of fungus.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Stamets\u003c/strong>: Yes. Yes, they did. The writers of \"Star Trek\" literally called me up saying, We're in the dungeon. We saw your TED talk. We're stuck. Do you have any ideas? And I said, Turn on your tape recorders, and they take me for about two hours and I talk about the mycelium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This universal structure we see in nature neurons, the computer, internet, mycelium, dark matter — this is a continuum of the fact that networks reward themselves. And I told them I always wanted to become the first astro-mycologist. And they said, \"Astro-mycologist! Oh, my gosh, we can use that.\" And so they consulted with me as recently as last week, and I'm really honored. Anthony Rapp portrays me. And, I gave them the spores for this idea, but they germinated in these writers' minds. Of course, they get 99.9% percent of the credit for this. But yeah, I'm greatly honored. I've been a \"Star Trek\" fan since I was a kid. So it's ... I'm greatly surprised and honored that they named the character after me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TrekCore/status/1458868668276912135\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How can people make sure that they do this respectfully, just as we close up the show? [Avoiding] negative impacts on our parklands and wildlands by foragers who go off trail?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tony Alvarez\u003c/strong>: I would say this is partly stewardship. When we go out, there's a bag for mushrooms, and there's a bag for garbage. When we're stewarding the land, as we're finding these goodies, all of us should do our part to clean up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We should make sure that we leave minimal to no traces that we were ever there, and love the earth like it loves us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to the full episode of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101887174/a-beginners-guide-to-bay-area-mushroom-foraging\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED Forum here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"It's mushroom time! 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In addition to replenishing groundwater and aquifers, the rain has allowed a particular species to prosper — the mushroom, our tiny little fungal friend. Mushrooms have been springing up in forests and backyards, potted plants and dark corners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all that's going on in the world, it might be easier to ignore the humble mushroom, but KQED Forum took the time to discuss finding and foraging mushrooms in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Alexis Madrigal spoke with Tony Alvarez, a member of the North American Mycological Association and leader of group foraging sessions called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/shroomywalkabout/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shroomy Walkabouts\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://paulstamets.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Stamets\u003c/a>, a renowned advocate for the ingenuity and utility of fungi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following excerpts have been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexis Madrigal: You do a lot of your work here in the Bay Area, and my assumption is that the rain has made this an absolutely banner year for mushrooms. What’s going on out there in the mushroom world?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tony Alvarez\u003c/strong>: The rain has really set off the bloom. Honestly, like I've never seen before in other years. I don't know if it's because of the fires, the cleaning of a lot of the forest floors of debris. I'm not exactly sure what's causing it — but the blooms have been astounding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm actually seeing some mushrooms that I've never seen in the Bay Area. I've only seen them up north — and I'm just seeing them in abundance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's been really, really beautiful to see these things at work and all playing their part in this beautiful ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Stamets, you have found and worked with thousands of mushrooms. Can you remember how you started your career? When did you decide that these were marvelous creatures and organisms?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Stamets\u003c/strong>: My earliest memory was when I was about 5 years old. I was pelting my twin brother with puffballs [a mushroom] and they kind of explode with this brown cloud of spores. I remember my mother coming out saying, “Don't throw puff balls … The spores will make him blind!” That actually is not true — spores won't make you blind, but that's my earliest memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children are constantly playing, and to get them in contact with nature through mushrooms — the mushroom portal, so to speak — has been a very valuable way of getting a new generation of biologists inspired about nature and protecting the ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tony, how did you go \"through the mushroom portal\"? How did you end up being someone who is now part of the North American Mycological Association?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tony Alvarez\u003c/strong>: I've always spent time in nature. I spent a lot of time alone when I was very young, so I was left to my own devices picking up rocks, turning over rocks, finding little mushrooms and whatnot. When I was in my teen years and I was gifted some magic mushrooms — that is how I went through my portal, and the connection with the mushrooms was so strong from that moment on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was very passionate about it when I was young, and kind of lost touch with it. And then I took a foraging course, and it just brought me back and I was just overwhelmed with joy, overwhelmed with love for these beautiful creatures that do so much for us.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"CXpqvUXrhy3"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What advice do you have for young people interested in getting more involved in the field of mycology?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Stamets\u003c/strong>: I would recommend that you join a mycology society. You've got four or five really good mycology societies here in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mssf.org/\">Mycological\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.mssf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Society of San Francisco\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://bayareamushrooms.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Area Mycological Association\u003c/a> up north, \u003ca href=\"https://www.somamushrooms.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sonoma County Mycological Association\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mendocinocoastmushroomclub.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club\u003c/a>, and the [\u003ca href=\"https://ffsc.us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz\u003c/a>].\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We oftentimes say it's like an adult Easter egg hunt. But children are closer to the ground. You cannot be poisoned by a mushroom by touching it. However, the caution that all of us mycologists want to give you — there are deadly poison species out there, so do not randomly go out and pick mushrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've been involved in the mycological society since I was about 15 years old, and I highly recommend that you be surrounded by others who have this knowledge. I'd be remiss not mentioning, I think the most prominent mushroom field guide is \"\u003ca href=\"http://bayareamushrooms.org/education/california_mushrooms_book_review.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Mushrooms: [The Comprehensive] Identification Guide\u003c/a>\" by Dennis E. Desjardin, Michael G. Wood and Frederick A. Stevens and then \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.shroomsupply.com/books-videos/mushrooms-demystified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mushrooms Demystified\u003c/a>\" by David Arora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are there any movements or thoughts in the mushroom community about how to best harvest mushrooms? How do we ensure that we haven't harvested 100% of the mushrooms as foraging gains popularity? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Stamets\u003c/strong>: Fantastic question. I don't have a good answer for you because I very much believe that you should leave no trace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The adage among many of us is not to pick more than 10% of the mushrooms. And with the chanterelle, we know they come up in twins. So we cut one of them rather than pull them, because when you pull them, you can abort one of the twins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'When we go out, there's a bag for mushrooms, and there's a bag for garbage. When we're stewarding the land, as we're finding these goodies, all of us should do our part to clean up.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Tony Alvarez, member, North American Mycological Association","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a great question without a clear answer. Conservation is really important. Unfortunately, some of these mushrooms are viewed as dollar bills in the ground by commercial harvesters. That being said, subsistence foraging of mushrooms is a long held tradition in Indigenous cultures all around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://davidarora.com/Home_Page.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Arora\u003c/a> studied this extensively, and it's really debatable. When you pick a mushroom, and [you're] carrying it, it's like fairy dust, you leave spore trails. And so as you carry the mushroom you're extending the habitat of those mushrooms. You can make the argument that harvesting mushrooms actually [spreads] their spores, and you can make the counterargument if you harvest, there's less spores there to spread. So the jury is out on this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's the relationship between fire and soil — especially as fire in California has been changing so quickly?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Stamets\u003c/strong>: I would defer to \u003ca href=\"https://biology.sfsu.edu/faculty/desjardin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dennis Desjardins\u003c/a>, who studied this as a professor at San Francisco State University. Fires are a natural part of the ecosystem, the evolution of ecosystems where there is not natural human habitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have this natural conflict between a natural system versus an \"unnatural system,\" albeit we can make the argument that humans are native to all the environments where we live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fire habitats, one of the first mushrooms to come up are \u003ca href=\"http://bayareamushrooms.org/mushroommonth/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">morels\u003c/a> — and morels seem to be everywhere in the forest. And they're very fragrant, so they attract animals that come in because they're fragrant. And then because these other animals eat the mushrooms, then they're attracted into these ecologically devastated ecosystems. They drop pellets to drop seeds, etcetera. So these are the harbingers of ecological recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the morels are the first appearance of an edible food for wild animals. Thus, they bring the wild animals that bring in seeds, and lead to ecological recovery. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"mushrooms, mycology","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> What are your thoughts on green burials and the ability to break down all matter? Have you thought about green burials for yourself whenever that time comes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Stamets\u003c/strong>: Yeah, I want to be entombed in mycelium. We have to embrace decomposition. We're all going to get there. So the phrase I use a lot is: Let it rot. We have this sort of view of nature, making it all clean and the yards spick and span. But it's that neighbor who has a chaotic environment that has all these debris, fields and brushes and all these highly fractalized environments that give these habitats all these organisms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept here is — we all decompose into soil, and this speaks to Indigenous knowledge and the belief that the soil is a living organism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Last thing, kind of a funny one. [KQED listener] Pete tweets, \"Did the 'Star Trek: Discovery' writers, the show, name the mycelial network navigator after you, Paul Stamets?\" \u003cem>Editor's note\u003c/em>: \"Star Trek: Discovery\" is the newest iteration of the show \"Star Trek,\" which premiered in 2017 and has a science officer named Commander Paul Stamets, played by Anthony Rapp, who helps starships travel along interdimensional pathways made of fungus.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Stamets\u003c/strong>: Yes. Yes, they did. The writers of \"Star Trek\" literally called me up saying, We're in the dungeon. We saw your TED talk. We're stuck. Do you have any ideas? And I said, Turn on your tape recorders, and they take me for about two hours and I talk about the mycelium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This universal structure we see in nature neurons, the computer, internet, mycelium, dark matter — this is a continuum of the fact that networks reward themselves. And I told them I always wanted to become the first astro-mycologist. And they said, \"Astro-mycologist! Oh, my gosh, we can use that.\" And so they consulted with me as recently as last week, and I'm really honored. Anthony Rapp portrays me. And, I gave them the spores for this idea, but they germinated in these writers' minds. Of course, they get 99.9% percent of the credit for this. But yeah, I'm greatly honored. I've been a \"Star Trek\" fan since I was a kid. So it's ... I'm greatly surprised and honored that they named the character after me.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1458868668276912135"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How can people make sure that they do this respectfully, just as we close up the show? [Avoiding] negative impacts on our parklands and wildlands by foragers who go off trail?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tony Alvarez\u003c/strong>: I would say this is partly stewardship. When we go out, there's a bag for mushrooms, and there's a bag for garbage. When we're stewarding the land, as we're finding these goodies, all of us should do our part to clean up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We should make sure that we leave minimal to no traces that we were ever there, and love the earth like it loves us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to the full episode of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101887174/a-beginners-guide-to-bay-area-mushroom-foraging\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED Forum here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11901198/through-the-mushroom-portal-why-mushrooms-are-popping-in-the-bay-area-and-tips-for-fungi-foraging","authors":["11757","11626"],"categories":["news_223","news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_30486","news_17601","news_787","news_30484","news_30485","news_22118","news_483"],"featImg":"news_11901201","label":"news"},"news_11893507":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11893507","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11893507","score":null,"sort":[1635030426000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fire-scarred-areas-brace-for-storms-flash-floods","title":"Fire-Scarred Areas Brace for Storms, Flash Floods","publishDate":1635030426,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The Bay Area is bracing for an “atmospheric river” — a massive, fast-moving storm system expected to soak the region this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weather event could bring up to seven inches of rain to Sonoma County alone. In response, officials there are lowering the inflatable rubber dam in the Russian River to prevent damage when the water rises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's unusual in that this is a large, atmospheric river for this early in the season,” said Barry Dugan, a spokesperson with Sonoma Water. “We normally see them a little bit later. What these atmospheric rivers do is they carry a tremendous amount of moisture into the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from lowering the dam, Dugan said there isn't much additional preparation. \"We don't expect that the river is going to reach a flood stage,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he doesn’t expect the river to overflow, meteorologists have issued a flash flood watch for areas scarred by wildfires.[aside postID=\"news_11893018\" label=\"Where to sign up for Bay Area emergency weather alerts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community and emergency personnel are putting out the alert for people to prepare for debris flows, and in \u003ca href=\"https://sfpublicworks.org/sandbags\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://cmo.smcgov.org/press-release/drivers-urged-slow-down-residents-prepare-winter-weather-bay-area-storm-door-opens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Mateo County\u003c/a> and elsewhere, officials are offering free sandbags to reduce flood damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service for the San Francisco Bay Area issued a high surf advisory through Friday for a portion of the coast and a flash flood watch Sunday for parts of the region, especially in areas burned by last year’s wildfires. Strong winds also are expected Sunday, with gusts of up to 60 mph at the windiest spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weather service said elevations above 9,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada could get 18 inches of snow or more from Sunday until Monday morning and warned of possible power outages and road closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sccounty/status/1451698885622120450\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Pierre, owner of Mission Ace Hardware and Lumber in Santa Rosa in Sonoma County, said they sold out of tarps this week and expect to do so again in advance of Sunday’s big storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is a feeling of relief that the area could escape wildfire this year, unlike last year when the Glass Fire broke out in late September and destroyed nearly 1,600 homes and other buildings. Customers had been stocking up on generators and power cords to prepare, Pierre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n“People were bracing for that, and it never happened,” he said, “and hopefully, this rain will keep it from happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But burn areas remain a concern, as land devoid of vegetation can’t soak up heavy rainfall as quickly, increasing the likelihood of mud or debris slides and flash flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1451658444788756481\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Lowenthal, an assistant fire marshal with the Santa Rosa Fire Department in Sonoma County, said the city is providing free sand and bags for residents who need to control rain runoff. They are also asking residents to clear gutters and on-site storm drains as the city prepares for up to 6 inches of rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the volume of water we’re expecting, we want it to go where it needs to go,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parts of western Santa Barbara County were under an evacuation warning Friday night in the area that had been burned by the Alisal Fire. The blaze charred 26.5 square miles and is 97% contained. The fire erupted in the Santa Ynez Mountains during high winds on Oct. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/1OOuKKLi9sWcd1acJd2ZVA?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians rejoiced when rain started falling this week for the first time in any measurable way since spring. NWS Bay Area tweeted that San Francisco International Airport set a record rainfall for Thursday, with 0.44 inches of rain. The old record was 0.13 inches on the same day in 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rain and snow will continue soaking Central and Northern California before spreading into Southern California on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storms have helped contain some of the nation’s largest wildfires this year. But this week’s storms won’t end drought that’s plaguing California and the western United States. California’s climate is hotter and drier now and that means the rain and snow that does fall is likely to evaporate or absorb into the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s 2021 water year, which ended Sept. 30, was the second driest on record, and last year’s was the fifth driest on record. Some of the state’s most important reservoirs are at record-low levels. For example, state officials say Lake Mendocino could be dry by next summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes additional reporting from KQED's Holly J. McDede and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Burn areas are a concern, as land devoid of vegetation can't soak up heavy rainfall as quickly, increasing the likelihood of mud or debris slides and flash flooding.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1635201525,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":794},"headData":{"title":"Fire-Scarred Areas Brace for Storms, Flash Floods | KQED","description":"Burn areas are a concern, as land devoid of vegetation can't soak up heavy rainfall as quickly, increasing the likelihood of mud or debris slides and flash flooding.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Fire-Scarred Areas Brace for Storms, Flash Floods","datePublished":"2021-10-23T23:07:06.000Z","dateModified":"2021-10-25T22:38:45.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11893507 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11893507","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/10/23/fire-scarred-areas-brace-for-storms-flash-floods/","disqusTitle":"Fire-Scarred Areas Brace for Storms, Flash Floods","path":"/news/11893507/fire-scarred-areas-brace-for-storms-flash-floods","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Bay Area is bracing for an “atmospheric river” — a massive, fast-moving storm system expected to soak the region this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weather event could bring up to seven inches of rain to Sonoma County alone. In response, officials there are lowering the inflatable rubber dam in the Russian River to prevent damage when the water rises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's unusual in that this is a large, atmospheric river for this early in the season,” said Barry Dugan, a spokesperson with Sonoma Water. “We normally see them a little bit later. What these atmospheric rivers do is they carry a tremendous amount of moisture into the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from lowering the dam, Dugan said there isn't much additional preparation. \"We don't expect that the river is going to reach a flood stage,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he doesn’t expect the river to overflow, meteorologists have issued a flash flood watch for areas scarred by wildfires.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11893018","label":"Where to sign up for Bay Area emergency weather alerts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community and emergency personnel are putting out the alert for people to prepare for debris flows, and in \u003ca href=\"https://sfpublicworks.org/sandbags\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://cmo.smcgov.org/press-release/drivers-urged-slow-down-residents-prepare-winter-weather-bay-area-storm-door-opens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Mateo County\u003c/a> and elsewhere, officials are offering free sandbags to reduce flood damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service for the San Francisco Bay Area issued a high surf advisory through Friday for a portion of the coast and a flash flood watch Sunday for parts of the region, especially in areas burned by last year’s wildfires. Strong winds also are expected Sunday, with gusts of up to 60 mph at the windiest spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weather service said elevations above 9,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada could get 18 inches of snow or more from Sunday until Monday morning and warned of possible power outages and road closures.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1451698885622120450"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Mike Pierre, owner of Mission Ace Hardware and Lumber in Santa Rosa in Sonoma County, said they sold out of tarps this week and expect to do so again in advance of Sunday’s big storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is a feeling of relief that the area could escape wildfire this year, unlike last year when the Glass Fire broke out in late September and destroyed nearly 1,600 homes and other buildings. Customers had been stocking up on generators and power cords to prepare, Pierre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n“People were bracing for that, and it never happened,” he said, “and hopefully, this rain will keep it from happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But burn areas remain a concern, as land devoid of vegetation can’t soak up heavy rainfall as quickly, increasing the likelihood of mud or debris slides and flash flooding.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1451658444788756481"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Paul Lowenthal, an assistant fire marshal with the Santa Rosa Fire Department in Sonoma County, said the city is providing free sand and bags for residents who need to control rain runoff. They are also asking residents to clear gutters and on-site storm drains as the city prepares for up to 6 inches of rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the volume of water we’re expecting, we want it to go where it needs to go,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parts of western Santa Barbara County were under an evacuation warning Friday night in the area that had been burned by the Alisal Fire. The blaze charred 26.5 square miles and is 97% contained. The fire erupted in the Santa Ynez Mountains during high winds on Oct. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/1OOuKKLi9sWcd1acJd2ZVA?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians rejoiced when rain started falling this week for the first time in any measurable way since spring. NWS Bay Area tweeted that San Francisco International Airport set a record rainfall for Thursday, with 0.44 inches of rain. The old record was 0.13 inches on the same day in 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rain and snow will continue soaking Central and Northern California before spreading into Southern California on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storms have helped contain some of the nation’s largest wildfires this year. But this week’s storms won’t end drought that’s plaguing California and the western United States. California’s climate is hotter and drier now and that means the rain and snow that does fall is likely to evaporate or absorb into the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s 2021 water year, which ended Sept. 30, was the second driest on record, and last year’s was the fifth driest on record. Some of the state’s most important reservoirs are at record-low levels. For example, state officials say Lake Mendocino could be dry by next summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes additional reporting from KQED's Holly J. McDede and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11893507/fire-scarred-areas-brace-for-storms-flash-floods","authors":["237"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_30115","news_787","news_30116","news_465","news_30119","news_1083","news_483","news_3","news_30118"],"featImg":"news_11893531","label":"news"},"news_11893018":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11893018","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11893018","score":null,"sort":[1634762883000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"will-october-rain-end-fire-season-and-the-drought-what-wet-weather-means-for-the-bay-area","title":"Will October Rain End Fire Season and the Drought? What Wet Weather Means for the Bay Area","publishDate":1634762883,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Skip to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#resources\">Where can I find the latest on Bay Area weather?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#alerts\">How do I sign up for emergency weather updates?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>A series of heavy storms has hit the Bay Area and Northern California and is expected to continue through the weekend, bringing potentially record-breaking amounts of rain of up to 7 inches in parched parts of the state. The rains coming later this week could be the biggest storms the state’s Central Valley region has seen in nine months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local residents got a taste of what's coming over the weekend when smaller storms sprinkled some areas in the valley while dumping 10 inches of snow in higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is definitely going to be one of those ground-soaking events,” said Emily Heller, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement from the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services Tuesday, officials advised that all Californians should be prepared. Officials are most concerned about mudslides in areas with burn scars from the Caldor and Dixie fires. The most dangerous conditions occur hours after a storm when the rain stops and water is absorbed into the earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#alerts\">If you're concerned about weather conditions in your area, sign up for alerts through your county.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A series of weather system will bring periods of light to moderate rainfall ️ to the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BayArea?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BayArea\u003c/a> & \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/CentralCoast?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CentralCoast\u003c/a> through Friday. A more potent atmospheric river then takes aim on the region late in the weekend with widespread rainfall and gusty winds. Stay tuned!⚠️\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/CAwx?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CAwx\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BayAreaWX?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BayAreaWX\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/usmXHUzWfk\">pic.twitter.com/usmXHUzWfk\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1450800366941990912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In anticipation of more wet weather, KQED host Natalia Navarro sat down with reporter Dan Brekke to find out what storms could mean for California's drought and the fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This interview from Oct. 19 has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Natalia Navarro: What is significant about this forecast?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke\u003c/strong>: It's a huge relief to people just to see rain, period, after our usual summer dry spell. But we're also in a really serious, prolonged drought. I think the main thing that we're going to see is a lot of rain. We're going to get one round of rain coming in tonight into tomorrow, another one Thursday into Friday, and then over the weekend starting Sunday and into Monday. [We could see] potentially really heavy rains that could fall across most of the northern half of the state. This is an opportunity — perhaps — to see the end of the fire season that has also been pretty rough on the state all year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How much rain can the Bay Area expect?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It depends on where you are. Around the Bay Area, the rainiest locations are in northern Sonoma County and in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and those places could see — by the end of this whole series of storms — more than 6 inches of rain. [In] San Francisco, Oakland, Richmond, we could see maybe 3 to 4 inches of rain, which is a lot for October. We'll see much less in the South Bay and further south.\u003cbr>\n[aside postID=science_1935067 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/11/atmoriver.png']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you expand out and start to look beyond, there's going to be really heavy rain in the Feather River watershed — where Lake Oroville is, around Shasta Lake and at the head of the Sacramento River. And in the northern and central Sierra, very heavy precipitation [is expected] in all of those places over the next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What could this amount of rain mean for this year's fire season?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The hope is that if this forecast pans out for the next week, there will be enough rain over the northern half of the state that it's really going to end the fire threat for the season — meaning that the vegetation that might burn in a fire is basically thoroughly soaked enough that it's just not going to be something that's going to catch fire if there was a thunderstorm (which is less likely at this time of year) or in the event of a big windstorm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, for the southern half of the state, we're not going to get enough rain over this period to really end the fire threat, from, say, Monterey County south to Los Angeles and San Diego counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Are there any concerns about flooding or mudslides?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are concerns, and those concerns are directly related to the fires that we've seen over the last couple of years. We had immense fires around the Bay Area and throughout Northern California last year and again this year. And all of those areas are places that are prone to debris flows and landslides because of the heavy amounts of rain that could be falling — especially the storm that's coming in Sunday and Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/What-We-Do/Flood-Preparedness/Flood-Preparedness-Week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>How to prepare for floods in California \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Will this series of storms help us get out of this drought?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It's not really going to end the drought. I like the term that the National Weather Service office for the Bay Area uses: They speak of \"beneficial rains,\" and that's really a short-term thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is really a series of storms that is going to bring us some short-term benefits. Some of our reservoirs may bounce back from where they've been, and we're going to get enough rain across our terribly brown, dry-looking landscape that will green up later in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the drought is really a long-term issue. The long-term climate forecast for this coming season is that we're in a La Niña pattern, which generally means less rain for Northern California than a normal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bottom line [is that] what we really need to get is three really wet months in December, January and February to really say that we were out of the drought. But even then, you're dealing with long-term effects. [The drought] really won't be over until we have several seasons of normal rainfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11893022\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/G17_sector_psw_GEOCOLOR_24fr_20211020-1202.gif\" alt=\"Animated gif of a satellite image of the Bay Area region with clouds and rainstorms moving through the frame.\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Satellite image captured the morning of October 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(NWS Bay Area)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"resources\">\u003c/a>Resources for tracking Bay Area weather\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are plenty of online resources and apps available for tracking weather in real time, especially ahead of rain, storms and extreme conditions. Below is a list of sites KQED regularly uses in our reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Websites to track basic weather information:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Weather Service, San Francisco Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Nevada River Forecast Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://opensnow.com/dailysnow/tahoe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tahoe Daily Snow\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Comprehensive scientific sites for weather watch:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://earth.nullschool.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Earth\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.weatherwest.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Weather West: California weather and climate perspectives\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"alerts\">\u003c/a>Where to sign up for Bay Area emergency weather alerts\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/emergencysite/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alameda County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofberkeley.info/EmergencyAlerting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City of Berkeley emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/2269/Emergency-Alerts-Resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contra Costa County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://emergency.marincounty.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marin County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/2481/Emergency-Alerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Napa County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfdem.org/get-city-alerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cmo.smcgov.org/smc-alert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Mateo County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://emergencymanagement.sccgov.org/AlertSCC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Clara County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/oes/emergency.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solano County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/get-ready/sign-up/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sonoma County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This post includes reporting from The Associated Press. \u003c/i>KQED's Dan Brekke, Natalia Navarro, Lina Blanco and Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Rainy weather and storms already are hitting the Bay Area and Northern California and are expected through the week. Here's what you can expect — plus, how to prepare.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1657153967,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1225},"headData":{"title":"Will October Rain End Fire Season and the Drought? What Wet Weather Means for the Bay Area | KQED","description":"Rainy weather and storms already are hitting the Bay Area and Northern California and are expected through the week. Here's what you can expect — plus, how to prepare.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Will October Rain End Fire Season and the Drought? 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What Wet Weather Means for the Bay Area","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/8aaeccf1-211c-448d-b35c-adc7000ed926/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11893018/will-october-rain-end-fire-season-and-the-drought-what-wet-weather-means-for-the-bay-area","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Skip to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#resources\">Where can I find the latest on Bay Area weather?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#alerts\">How do I sign up for emergency weather updates?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>A series of heavy storms has hit the Bay Area and Northern California and is expected to continue through the weekend, bringing potentially record-breaking amounts of rain of up to 7 inches in parched parts of the state. The rains coming later this week could be the biggest storms the state’s Central Valley region has seen in nine months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local residents got a taste of what's coming over the weekend when smaller storms sprinkled some areas in the valley while dumping 10 inches of snow in higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is definitely going to be one of those ground-soaking events,” said Emily Heller, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement from the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services Tuesday, officials advised that all Californians should be prepared. Officials are most concerned about mudslides in areas with burn scars from the Caldor and Dixie fires. The most dangerous conditions occur hours after a storm when the rain stops and water is absorbed into the earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#alerts\">If you're concerned about weather conditions in your area, sign up for alerts through your county.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A series of weather system will bring periods of light to moderate rainfall ️ to the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BayArea?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BayArea\u003c/a> & \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/CentralCoast?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CentralCoast\u003c/a> through Friday. A more potent atmospheric river then takes aim on the region late in the weekend with widespread rainfall and gusty winds. Stay tuned!⚠️\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/CAwx?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CAwx\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/BayAreaWX?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BayAreaWX\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/usmXHUzWfk\">pic.twitter.com/usmXHUzWfk\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1450800366941990912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In anticipation of more wet weather, KQED host Natalia Navarro sat down with reporter Dan Brekke to find out what storms could mean for California's drought and the fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This interview from Oct. 19 has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Natalia Navarro: What is significant about this forecast?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke\u003c/strong>: It's a huge relief to people just to see rain, period, after our usual summer dry spell. But we're also in a really serious, prolonged drought. I think the main thing that we're going to see is a lot of rain. We're going to get one round of rain coming in tonight into tomorrow, another one Thursday into Friday, and then over the weekend starting Sunday and into Monday. [We could see] potentially really heavy rains that could fall across most of the northern half of the state. This is an opportunity — perhaps — to see the end of the fire season that has also been pretty rough on the state all year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How much rain can the Bay Area expect?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It depends on where you are. Around the Bay Area, the rainiest locations are in northern Sonoma County and in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and those places could see — by the end of this whole series of storms — more than 6 inches of rain. [In] San Francisco, Oakland, Richmond, we could see maybe 3 to 4 inches of rain, which is a lot for October. We'll see much less in the South Bay and further south.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1935067","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/11/atmoriver.png","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you expand out and start to look beyond, there's going to be really heavy rain in the Feather River watershed — where Lake Oroville is, around Shasta Lake and at the head of the Sacramento River. And in the northern and central Sierra, very heavy precipitation [is expected] in all of those places over the next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What could this amount of rain mean for this year's fire season?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The hope is that if this forecast pans out for the next week, there will be enough rain over the northern half of the state that it's really going to end the fire threat for the season — meaning that the vegetation that might burn in a fire is basically thoroughly soaked enough that it's just not going to be something that's going to catch fire if there was a thunderstorm (which is less likely at this time of year) or in the event of a big windstorm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, for the southern half of the state, we're not going to get enough rain over this period to really end the fire threat, from, say, Monterey County south to Los Angeles and San Diego counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Are there any concerns about flooding or mudslides?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are concerns, and those concerns are directly related to the fires that we've seen over the last couple of years. We had immense fires around the Bay Area and throughout Northern California last year and again this year. And all of those areas are places that are prone to debris flows and landslides because of the heavy amounts of rain that could be falling — especially the storm that's coming in Sunday and Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/What-We-Do/Flood-Preparedness/Flood-Preparedness-Week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>How to prepare for floods in California \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Will this series of storms help us get out of this drought?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It's not really going to end the drought. I like the term that the National Weather Service office for the Bay Area uses: They speak of \"beneficial rains,\" and that's really a short-term thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is really a series of storms that is going to bring us some short-term benefits. Some of our reservoirs may bounce back from where they've been, and we're going to get enough rain across our terribly brown, dry-looking landscape that will green up later in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the drought is really a long-term issue. The long-term climate forecast for this coming season is that we're in a La Niña pattern, which generally means less rain for Northern California than a normal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bottom line [is that] what we really need to get is three really wet months in December, January and February to really say that we were out of the drought. But even then, you're dealing with long-term effects. [The drought] really won't be over until we have several seasons of normal rainfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11893022\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/G17_sector_psw_GEOCOLOR_24fr_20211020-1202.gif\" alt=\"Animated gif of a satellite image of the Bay Area region with clouds and rainstorms moving through the frame.\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Satellite image captured the morning of October 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(NWS Bay Area)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"resources\">\u003c/a>Resources for tracking Bay Area weather\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>There are plenty of online resources and apps available for tracking weather in real time, especially ahead of rain, storms and extreme conditions. Below is a list of sites KQED regularly uses in our reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Websites to track basic weather information:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Weather Service, San Francisco Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Nevada River Forecast Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://opensnow.com/dailysnow/tahoe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tahoe Daily Snow\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Comprehensive scientific sites for weather watch:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://earth.nullschool.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Earth\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.weatherwest.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Weather West: California weather and climate perspectives\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"alerts\">\u003c/a>Where to sign up for Bay Area emergency weather alerts\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/emergencysite/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alameda County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofberkeley.info/EmergencyAlerting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City of Berkeley emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/2269/Emergency-Alerts-Resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contra Costa County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://emergency.marincounty.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marin County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/2481/Emergency-Alerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Napa County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfdem.org/get-city-alerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cmo.smcgov.org/smc-alert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Mateo County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://emergencymanagement.sccgov.org/AlertSCC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Clara County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/oes/emergency.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solano County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/get-ready/sign-up/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sonoma County emergency alerts\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This post includes reporting from The Associated Press. \u003c/i>KQED's Dan Brekke, Natalia Navarro, Lina Blanco and Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11893018/will-october-rain-end-fire-season-and-the-drought-what-wet-weather-means-for-the-bay-area","authors":["11756","222"],"categories":["news_28250","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_20061","news_1386","news_17601","news_29376","news_27626","news_28199","news_787","news_465","news_1083","news_3"],"featImg":"news_11893046","label":"news"},"news_11886590":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11886590","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11886590","score":null,"sort":[1631037675000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"despite-containment-gains-caldor-fire-continues-march-toward-tahoe-basin","title":"Caldor Fire Nearly 50% Contained, As Crews Continue Battling 'Troublesome' Spots","publishDate":1631037675,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cem>Find \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/IMT6\">the latest on evacuation orders and warnings\u003c/a>, including a map from the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office, as well as \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/IMT6\">current shelter information for evacuees\u003c/a>. Follow \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU\">Cal Fire AEU on Twitter\u003c/a> for up-to-date information. This post, originally published on Aug. 27, was continually updated through Sept. 7. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 11 a.m. Tuesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite rising temperatures and low humidity, fire crews made steady progress in an ongoing quest to subdue the massive Caldor Fire, with almost 50% of the voracious blaze contained as of Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Which means we don't expect any movement of the fire outside those containment lines,\" said Cal Fire Operations Section Chief Tim Ernst, proudly pointing to the solid black containment lines ringing most of the southern and southwestern sections of the perimeter, nearly up the Highway 50 corridor to Kyburz. \"As a matter of fact, yesterday we didn't have any significant runs of the fire that pushed any of those containment lines, nor did we have any significant spots. So that's a great accomplishment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1392px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11887695 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1392\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM.png 1392w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM-800x468.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM-1020x596.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM-160x94.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1392px) 100vw, 1392px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of Cal Fire Incident Commander Tim Ernst during Tuesday morning's Caldor Fire update, as he points to hard-fought black containment lines along the blaze's southern and southwestern flank. \u003ccite>(Cal Fire via Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But even as communities in the South Lake Tahoe basin and other recently evacuated areas returned home this weekend, Ernst noted the blaze was far from quenched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said crews were still contending with \"troublesome\" areas in its northern and eastern reaches, including near Wrights Lake, northwest of Highway 50, where a tenacious offshoot of the blaze had entered Desolation Wilderness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LakeTahoeUSFS/status/1434942634544361473\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while crews in the basin made incremental progress beefing up containment efforts near Heavenly Mountain Resort, staving off any major structural damage in the vicinity, the eastern flank of the blaze continued to push against the Highway 88 corridor, posing a lingering threat to the Kirkwood Mountain Resort community. Ernst, though, said crews had just done firing operations near homes in that area — referring to the tactic of intentionally burning brush and other fuels as a preventive measure — and were now\u003cbr>\n\"seeing much better results there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire, which first sparked on Aug. 14 near Grizzly Flats, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1435245060136652804\">has destroyed at least 776 homes\u003c/a> and devoured more than 216,000 acres. Full containment of the blaze is expected by Sept. 27, Cal Fire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Explore a map of current Caldor Fire activity:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003csmall>\u003ca style=\"color: #0000ff;text-align: left\" href=\"//www.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=50e4ec29f91141be9af4cad557147544&extent=-121.2534,38.3922,-119.2251,39.2631&zoom=true&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=true&legendlayers=true&disable_scroll=true&theme=light\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clear here to view larger map (or if not loading on mobile)\u003c/a>\u003c/small>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" title=\"Current Wildfire Perimeters\" src=\"//www.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=50e4ec29f91141be9af4cad557147544&extent=-121.2534,38.3922,-119.2251,39.2631&zoom=true&previewImage=false&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=true&legendlayers=true&disable_scroll=false&theme=light\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 6 p.m. Monday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Containment on the Caldor Fire improved over Labor Day weekend to 44% as fire officials let people return to South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The repopulation of South Lake Tahoe began on Sunday afternoon after the evacuation order for the city of more than 20,000 people was downgraded to an evacuation warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This includes everything within the city limits, the area north of State Highway 50 between the Nevada state line and the Lake Tahoe airport, and all properties on both sides of Highway 89 from Emerald Bay north through Tahoma, among a few other spots in El Dorado County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887662\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1288px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11887662 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/evacuation-map-2021.jpg\" alt=\"A map of the southern shore of Lake Tahoe. Tahoma, Fallen Leaf A, South Lake Tahoe, and Lower and Upper Kingsbury are in yellow.\" width=\"1288\" height=\"859\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/evacuation-map-2021.jpg 1288w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/evacuation-map-2021-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/evacuation-map-2021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/evacuation-map-2021-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1288px) 100vw, 1288px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While South Lake Tahoe has been downgraded to an evacuation warning, many other parts of El Dorado County remain under an evacuation order. On Sept. 5, Cal Fire AED published this map to show which areas remain under an evacuation order (violet) and which are now under an evacuation warning (yellow). \u003ccite>(Cal Fire Amador-El Dorado Unit)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, fire crews made progress in containing the flames along the northwest and northeast sections of the perimeter, including the section closest to South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\"A lot of great work has gone on there,\" said Cal Fire Operations Section Chief Tim Ernst in a Monday morning community briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the morning of Labor Day, fire officials also signaled that conditions on Monday are a lot drier, which could make the work of containing what is left of the Caldor Fire much more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I cannot emphasize how dry things are across this fire today. The humidity was very, very poor recovery last night,\" said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley, who also added that the wind is blowing a lot more strongly than it did during the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With stronger winds comes a greater risk of embers flying out and widening the perimeter of the fire, Stephen Vollmer, fire analyst with Cal Fire, reminded fire crews Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got this thing, we're wrapping our arms around it. We're trying to take it down, but don't get complacent on it,\" he said. \"Stay focused.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Highway 50 has reopened from the Nevada border to the South Lake Tahoe city limits to allow residents back in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are really excited to get back into town,\" said Mayor of South Lake Tahoe Tamara Wallace. She was quick to point out that the repopulation effort does not include all of El Dorado County and that there are many other communities still under an evacuation order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's … a testament to the firefighters and their amazing work that we are able to get back into our homes and all our homes are safe,\" said Wallace, who for the moment plans to hold off for a few days until she returns to her own home in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's limited services,\" she explained, pointing to the fact that, as of Monday morning, only one grocery store in the entire city had reopened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Wallace and Cal Fire recommend that residents who are allowed to return to their homes first stock up on groceries, gas and other essential supplies before making the trip back. This also goes for folks who don't live full-time in South Lake Tahoe but have a cabin or property in the area and want to check up on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a fire has burned through an area, many dangers remain: Damage to buildings can make them unstable; debris and downed trees can block roads; and downed utility lines pose serious electrical and other hazards. Fire officials also warn that the risk of flooding remains high for weeks and months after a wildfire, due to the amount of destroyed vegetation that once stabilized the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 10 a.m. Saturday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Saturday morning, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1434186869915357187\">Cal Fire AEU reported a continued decrease in fire behavior\u003c/a> \"thanks to a slight rise in humidity levels and decrease in temperatures.\" Ongoing inspections for damage continue, but Cal Fire said 75% of structures were assessed. The fire is still most active on the south side of Echo Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://fires.airfire.org/outlooks/LakeTahoeBasin\">smoke outlook for the Tahoe area\u003c/a> is expected to be between moderate to unhealthy throughout the day with some light winds predicted to provide some relief. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd945702.pdf\">temporary closure of all national forests in California\u003c/a> is still in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 5:30 p.m. Friday \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As fire crews manage the seemingly insurmountable feat of beating back the Caldor Fire from South Lake Tahoe, one question has been repeatedly aired by the public: When will people be allowed back?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prospects are \"looking good\" for repopulating South Lake Tahoe, said U.S. Forest Service Operations Sections Chief Jake Cagle, but it depends on the weather and the efforts of hundreds of people — so officially, there's no answer yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Cagle said, \"we're getting close.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Lake Tahoe Fire Chief Clive Savacool said he and his fellow firefighters have been evacuated from their homes as well, \"so we can empathize with you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savacool thanked South Lake Tahoe citizens for pushing for more information, and said, \"I wanted to assure you we're going to get you home as soon as we can, as soon as the fire is safe. ... It's also our position to be your voice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Caldor Fire has burned 212,907 acres as of Friday evening, and is 29% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Repopulating areas that have been evacuated was on the minds of most fire officials at Friday evening's community meeting, as they downgraded various areas from evacuation orders — which mandate evacuations — to warnings, which merely caution them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas downgraded Friday afternoon include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>South Sly Park: South of Starkes Grade Road, north of Sly Park Creek, east of Pleasant Valley Road up to and including the Diamond Garnet subdivision.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Grizzly Flats West: East of Highway E16, west of Steely Ridge Road, south of the North Fork of the Cosumnes River and north of the Middle Fork of the Cosumnes River.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Happy Valley: All properties accessed from Happy Valley Road.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Other fronts of the fire showed signs of fire crews finding success, including Christmas Valley, with fire officials saying \"everything looks good\" there, and Sierra Springs and the Lower Pines area both being downgraded to evacuation warnings, from orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savacool had one more thought to reassure South Lake Tahoe citizens: We're making sure the bears aren't rummaging around your homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've gotten a lot of calls and concerns about the bears in town,\" Savacool said Friday evening. He said law enforcement is \"patrolling 24/7 to make sure your homes are safe, to scare off the bears, so your homes are protected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Make sure to check for full and up-to-date evacuation orders and warnings \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/IMT6\">with Cal Fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 2 p.m. Friday \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Caldor Fire has so far been successfully steered from South Lake Tahoe thanks to a break in weather conditions, defensive fire prevention and a continuous push from fire crews, officials said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the fire has encroached on nearby areas, like Christmas Valley, and fire officials said the battle is far from over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Friday afternoon community briefing, Anthony Scardina, deputy regional forester with the United States Forest Service, said a lot of the day's success came from defensive field treatments like forest thinning and prescribed burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were conditions where there were 150-foot flame lengths, and when they hit, those field treatments worked, bringing them down to 20-foot flame lengths,\" Scardina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But we're still not out of the woods,\" he said. \"We're having some success, but there's still a lot of fire on the landscape. And weather conditions can change pretty quickly, as you've seen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some evacuation orders were downgraded to evacuation warnings as of 2 p.m. Friday afternoon, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The area south of Pleasant Valley between Bucks Bar Road and Newtown Road\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>East of Bucks Bar Road\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The areas of Gopher Hole Road and Moon-Shadow\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The area just south of U.S. Highway 50, north of Starkes Grade Road\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>East of Snows Road\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>West of Fresh Pond\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The successful field treatments that aided fire efforts this week were the result of 10 years of fire prevention, Scardina said, and that's work that needs to be ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have forest conditions that are overstocked. They're too dense, and you combine that with a series of years of drought, and combine that with some of the warming temperatures we've seen,\" he said, \"with those three elements we have to continue working on them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 9 a.m. Friday \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire expressed cautious optimism this morning, after another night of more favorable weather conditions allowed them to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">inch up containment on the Caldor Fire to 29%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'll sum everything up with the incident with the words 'cautiously optimistic,'\" Cal Fire Section Chief Tim Ernst said at the Friday morning briefing. \"The humidities came in again last night, and fortunately we've had no significant fire runs through the entire shift yesterday. So we've definitely turned that corner.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernst credited the consistent hard work of fire crews for saving thousands of homes and countless acres of forest. More than 4,400 firefighters are currently on the ground and in the air fighting the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since first erupting on Aug. 14, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1433791946573504519\">the massive blaze\u003c/a> has destroyed 661 homes and devoured nearly 213,000 acres, while continuing to threaten some 32,000 other structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While overall conditions are still dry, firefighters are taking advantage of the marginally improved humidity and reduced winds to secure key areas, like those along the Highway 50 corridor and near the Heavenly Mountain Resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1433794960201957376?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are going into a new phase in the weather,\" said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley. \"We're going back to the inversion. We got the smoke.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dudley said that while this weather will result in lighter winds, regular terrain-driven winds throughout the day will continue to be a challenge because of their unpredictability and tendency to move in \"squirrely directions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters are also working to improve containment lines near Meyers and South Lake Tahoe, where the blaze continues to be active. Northeast of the Pioneer Trail, hand crews and bulldozers are working to build lines that would usher the fire toward Cold Creek, where containment is more secure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across Highway 50, at Lower Echo Lake, firefighters worked through the night extinguishing hot spots and battling the fire directly to keep it from spreading to nearby cabins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11886903 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51240_GettyImages-1337303910-qut-1020x674.jpg']Christmas Valley, which sits just south of South Lake Tahoe, remains among the areas of greatest concern. The fire is still very active in the area, prompting firefighters last night to build control lines to coax it east toward Saxon Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not out of the woods, but we have not seen any growth there as well,\" Ernst said. Crews, he added, will continue to focus heavily on that area today in an effort to contain the fire's spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another big priority Friday is securing areas near homes so officials can begin lifting evacuation orders and allowing residents to return. Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Cal_OES/status/1433815874796863491\">48,000 people\u003c/a> in the region still remain under evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While acknowledging the positive developments, officials urged residents not to get complacent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got this thing kind of lassoed. We just need to keep holding on to it with what we've got,\" said Stephen Vollmer, a fire analyst with Cal Fire. \"So know that there's still a lot of hot material out there, know that there's a lot of unburned islands in the middle of this thing that could still threaten our line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's especially true, he said, along much of Highway 50, an area that remains hot and windy, where embers can still blow up to half a mile into unburned islands of brush and start new spot fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paraphrasing from a World War II speech by Winston Churchill, U.S. Forest Service Supervisor Dean Gould said: \"This isn't the end. It's not the beginning of the end, but it's the end of the beginning. So please keep that in mind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 6:30 p.m. Thursday \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Favorable weather conditions Thursday gave firefighters a slight advantage, as they worked to keep the Caldor Fire from moving into populated areas in the Tahoe basin and nearby communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has already destroyed 649 homes, and some 32,000 more structures are still under threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following three extremely gusty, dry red flag condition days that fueled the spread of the fire — which is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">27% contained\u003c/a> — calmer winds throughout much of the massive fire area helped an army of more than 4,400 firefighters gain some ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/kentphotos/status/1433280641919971333\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those conditions are expected to continue through Saturday and possibly even Sunday, giving weary crews a crucial window to make steady containment gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Weather’s gotten better. We got good news on the weather front. The light winds will continue for about two to three days,” said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley during the Thursday evening briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That decrease in winds means a decrease in fire activity, particularly the spot fires that have been largely responsible for spreading this blaze, added Stephen Vollmer, a fire analyst with Cal Fire. Although ignition rates will remain very high, he said embers were now being cast less than half a mile, down from over a mile just days ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Which is great for the resources on the ground, so we can get in there and mop up all those hot spots,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a sign of improved conditions, officials on Thursday \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1433478019654426658\">downgraded mandatory evacuation orders\u003c/a> to warnings in the area of Omo Ranch, on the southwestern heel of the fire — where there is a growing segment of continuous containment line — and lifted evacuation warnings altogether in several nearby communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we did get today is a little bit of good news. The colors are starting to change,\" said John Davis, a Cal Fire liaison officer, pointing to the updated recent evacuation map. “Everyone's getting in here, doing the work necessary to put everybody back as soon as safely possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters on Thursday were also able to maintain control over a stubborn section of fire along Butte Creek and Sturdevant Ridge, north of Grizzly Flats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This continued to be probably one of our major challenges for the first two weeks of the incident,\" said Cal Fire Section Chief Tim Ernst. “By [containing it], we were able to save about 600 or 700 structures, over 10,000 additional acres in this area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heading up Highway 50 into the Tahoe basin, fire activity continued at Lower Echo Lake, where firefighters yesterday were ferried by boat to protect and prepare structures. Crews on Thursday worked along the edges of the blaze to steer it away from cabins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite earlier concerns, the fire had not spread to the area of Upper Truckee Road, where crews worked to put in contingency line up to Fallen Leaf Lake, in case conditions change. \"Right now there's not imminent threat or anticipation that it's going to get in there,\" said Cal Fire Operations Section Chief Jake Cagle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While crews made overall progress on the fire Thursday, the northeastern edge of the blaze continued to menace communities in the Tahoe basin as it moved toward the Nevada state line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That tongue of fire was still \"bumping up\" against the border of Heavenly Mountain Resort, Tahoe’s largest ski area, although the blaze was not spreading as fast as it has in recent days, Ernst said. He said crews there are continuing to shore up the northeast perimeter by putting in strong bulldozer lines and removing hazardous trees, in a thus-far successful effort to protect nearby housing developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was some increased fire activity in the area on Thursday, with crews working the edge of the blaze and trying to push it toward the power line grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resort, which is now being used as a staging area by firefighters, also brought out its big guns — snowmaking devices that were being used to hose down buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thick smoke continues to envelop South Lake Tahoe, which remains under a mandatory evacuation order and is all but deserted at a time when it would normally be swarming with tourists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After casinos and stores closed on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe on Wednesday morning, evacuees lined up outside the MontBleu Resort Casino & Spa in Stateline, waiting for a bus to take them to Reno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cagle also said crews had made good progress on the fire's northeastern flank in a bid to prevent it from crossing into Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lower end of that same spur of the fire, roughly 3 miles south of South Lake Tahoe, also continued to threaten communities in Meyers and Christmas Valley. Firefighters there, aided by air tankers, hustled Thursday to keep the flames as high up on the eastern ridge as possible, and away from dense concentrations of homes. But Christmas Valley was looking good by day's end Thursday, Cagle said, noting that crews there were being \"extremely aggressive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1433450121698574337\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews were also still struggling to gain control over the blaze near the Kirkwood ski resort area, to the south of the basin. Aircraft bombarded the area with water and retardant throughout day, as hand crews and bulldozers put in line to keep the blaze from coming down the ridge into the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since first sparking on Aug. 14, the blaze has charred nearly 211,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 9 a.m. Thursday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news: Improved weather is expected to continue today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We lost the winds aloft. It's a good day today to not have gusty winds up on the ridges,\" said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley at a Thursday morning briefing. \"What we are going to have today are terrain-driven winds,\" which occur as the sun heats the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, those winds, he warned, tend to be \"quite variable in direction,\" and given the ongoing dry conditions can still easily spark spot fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the west side of the blaze, firefighters are working to secure the Highway 50 corridor and keep the fire from burning cabins near Wrights Lake on the edge of Desolation Wilderness, in hopes the granite fields there will block its advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got a lot of resources heading up there to make sure we prevent any fire spread from heading back to the west,\" said Beale Monday, a U.S. Forest Service operations section chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a positive development, crews overnight were able to use air support to drop water near the Kirkwood ski resort, holding back the blaze, which is hung up on a ridge just outside the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials on Thursday planned to fly in pumps to bring more water into the area to reinforce containment lines and protect homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EldoradoNF/status/1433481005730435074\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Wednesday night, \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/01/president-joseph-r-biden-jr-approves-california-emergency-declaration/\">President Biden issued an emergency declaration for the Caldor Fire\u003c/a> — following a request from Gov. Gavin Newsom — directing federal assistance to support state, local and tribal officials in battling the blaze. The order also authorizes the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate disaster relief efforts and provide assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the fire has charred more than 210,000 acres, only five injuries — three firefighters and two civilians — have been reported so far, with no fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire managers on Wednesday also announced a major change in command structure, with the fire now divided into a western and eastern zone, each managed by separate teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 8 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing a third consecutive red flag warning day amid dry, blustery conditions, thousands of firefighters labored Wednesday to block the ravenous Caldor Fire from reaching two major ski resort areas near Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews doubled down on efforts to corral a large finger of the blaze that was rapidly spreading northeast toward Heavenly Mountain Resort and the Nevada state line, where it posed an immediate threat to South Lake Tahoe and neighboring communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Heavy, heavy resource commitment. We've got folks from all over the country here pushed into this entire area,\" Beale Monday, a U.S. Forest Service operations section chief, said on Wednesday. \"This is some very tough country. Very steep, very rugged. And it’s just not safe to try to put people right on the fire edge right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the fire was expected to spread further northeast, crossing into Nevada, and that crews with heavy equipment were doing prep work around the clock on sections of Highways 206, 207 and 88 to try to create “a catcher’s mitt as close to this as we possibly can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to have a lot of equipment, a lot of people working on this periphery out here,\" Monday said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze also skirted across the north side of Christmas Valley, with crews scrambling to keep flames east of Pioneer Trail and away from homes. Monday said there has so far been no reported damage to homes in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RaquelMDillon/status/1433152762645291012\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South of the Tahoe basin, crews hardened their defense of the Kirkwood ski area along Highway 88, where strong, erratic winds continued to fuel the blaze, spreading spot fires dangerously close to that community. As of Wednesday evening, the fire had not entered Kirkwood proper, Monday said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on the northwest side of the blaze, the fire on Wednesday continued moving aggressively up Wrights Lake Road off Highway 50 toward Desolation Wilderness. Aided by heavy air tankers dumping retardant, ground crews there moved quickly to connect control lines to the nearby granite fields in an effort to steer the blaze away from cabins and prevent it from spreading west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're actively engaged way up high here into the wilderness, trying to make sure that we do not get any more fire spread to the west,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wind-fueled spot fires continue to be the biggest hurdle to control efforts, said Stephen Vollmer, a fire analyst with Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They've been a problem since the very first day of this incident, and that's what's causing this fire to grow exponentially,\" he said. \"So we're battling what we can battle and waiting for those winds to subside so that we can get in there and actively engage those fires.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, crews also toiled to stop an offshoot of fire along the Highway 50 corridor east of Pollock Pines, as bulldozers tried to build a contingency line on the north side of the highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of our biggest fears is that fire jumping across the highway,\" Monday said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the many challenges firefighters continued to face, much progress had been made in various sections of the massive fire area, including most of the southern flank, where the perimeter remained strong, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things were also generally looking under control in much of the southwestern section of the blaze, near where it first ignited more than two weeks ago, he added, although crews were still working to connect containment lines there, after a fierce spot fire erupted Tuesday on a ridge above Sly Park Road — setting a bulldozer on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We still have a lot of work to do in there,\" Monday said. \"This has been a real troublesome spot for us over the last 14 to 15 days.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters, he said, were \"trying to put the wet stuff on the hot stuff as much as we can,\" hoping to \"call this line contained\" in the next few days and then begin repopulating much of the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11887278\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A black bear cub hangs over a tree branch near a burned structure in Phillips on Tues., Aug. 31, 2021. The Caldor Fire spread through the area on Monday evening. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As containment lines grew, officials on Wednesday \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1433210214409408513\">downgraded an evacuation order to a warning\u003c/a> in the area near North Camino and Pollock Pines north of Highway 50 and west of Sly Park Road, allowing residents there to return to their homes for the first time in about two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some 53,000 residents in El Dorado County alone were still under evacuation orders Wednesday. Officials have not given a timeline for when those areas can be repopulated, noting the many steps necessary before lifting evacuation orders, including removing firefighting equipment, cutting down damaged trees, and getting critical infrastructure running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an expected positive turn in the weather in the coming days may help hasten those repopulation efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finally some good news on the weather side here on this fire,” said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley, emphasizing that the region's red flag warning would finally be ending late Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While dry conditions will continue into tomorrow, with high ignition rates, he said the strong, erratic winds that have so effectively fueled the fire in recent days are likely to subside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And getting into Friday, the winds get even lighter,\" he said. \"So the issues and conditions that weather was causing, especially for the last couple of days, are going to be mitigated by much lighter winds across the fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burning since Aug. 14, the Caldor Fire has charred nearly 208,000 acres and is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">23% contained\u003c/a>. The blaze has destroyed almost 600 residences and continues to threaten more than 32,000 homes and other structures. Amazingly, only five injuries — three firefighters and two civilians — have been reported so far, with no fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 9 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After another long night of working to protect structures in the southern Tahoe basin from the sprawling Caldor Fire, firefighters face a challenging day again Wednesday as gusty winds and extremely dry conditions persist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews dodged a bit of a bullet Tuesday as southwesterly winds didn't blow as hard as forecast, instead pushing the fire northeast — further into the Carson Range toward Nevada — instead of north toward South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We lucked out yesterday with some of the winds that didn't come up quite as hard as we expected,\" said Cal Fire Section Chief Tim Ernst in a Wednesday morning briefing. \"We're fortunate the fire did not make as strong a push into Tahoe as it did the previous day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernst said a thick layer of smoke that came in around midnight \"put a damper on things and slowed a lot of growth,\" giving crews opportunities to make some progress, despite very low humidity and warm temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got some great dozer line to protect structures here,\" Ernst said of efforts to keep the dangerous easternmost tongue of the fire from spreading into nearby communities, including South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is now burning just a few miles southwest of the Heavenly Mountain Resort, which on Tuesday began activating snowmaking equipment in an effort to slow the fire should it reach the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KrisAnkarlo/status/1432856342213976067?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews Wednesday will also continue on protecting the Kirkwood area south of the Tahoe basin along Highway 88.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of our major concerns was the Kirkwood bowl area where the Kirkwood ski area is. The fire is currently hung up right on the ridge outside Kirkwood, so that's something we'll be looking at today as one of our priorities,\" Ernst said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to the active fire area further west of Kirkwood along Highway 88, Ernst said fire crews are continuing to work on buttoning it up and keeping it from spreading further south across the highway — but he said the area \"won't show containment for a while.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overnight, the fire also moved quickly up Wrights Lake Road, above Highway 50, spreading north toward a group of nearby cabins and Desolation Wilderness beyond that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This continues to be probably one of the biggest challenges of this last shift,\" said Ernst, adding that crews were putting in contingency lines and doing structure defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a positive note, Ernst said things were \"looking real good\" in most of the southern and southwestern sections of the fire, where firefighters had made steady containment gains, including the area along Sly Park Road, south of Pollock Pines. Crews, though, were still fighting hard to clean up and secure one small area near Grizzly Flats, close to where the fire began more than two weeks — and where a bulldozer went up in flames yesterday. \"We expect to probably see another 36 to 48 hours before we show full containment here,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The entire fire is still in a red flag warning,\" warned Cal Fire incident meteorologist Jim Dudley Wednesday morning. \"The wind regime you saw yesterday will continue today. The speeds may be a little bit less than [Tuesday] ... but we'll still have swirling gusty winds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The red flag warning is set to expire at 11 p.m. Wednesday — but fire behavior analyst Stephen Vollmer warned that extreme fire behavior is likely to continue for at least another week, and indicated that officials fully expect the fire to cross the California-Nevada state line. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1432853046065709058\">Mandatory evacuation orders have already been issued\u003c/a> for several communities just across the state line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In El Dorado County alone, more than 53,000 residents are currently under \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Cal_OES/status/1433093655095496709\">mandatory evacuation orders\u003c/a>, with no timeline yet in place for repopulating those areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've talked about fire-weakened timber falling across roads, across escape routes. ... We've talked about long-distance spotting and high probability of ignition with extremely dry fuels,\" Vollmer said Wednesday morning. \"All those things are still in play today. And they're still going to be in play for the next week or so until we get a severe change in the weather.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/eldoradonf/status/1433088467664211980?s=21\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 10 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sprawling army of firefighters worked furiously Tuesday to protect communities in and around the South Lake Tahoe area, as fierce alpine gusts continued fanning the flames of the fast-growing Caldor Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 4,000 personnel kept fighting the ferocious blaze from all directions in an all-out scramble not so much to extinguish the flames, but merely to keep them from destroying houses and other structures.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jim Dudley, incident meteorologist\"]'We’ve got to get through tonight and tomorrow. Things look better come Thursday.'[/pullquote]\"We can’t control it. We don’t have any tools out there to stop the fire,\" Erich Schwab, a Cal Fire operations section chief, told reporters during a Tuesday evening briefing, noting the exceptionally windy, dry conditions — expected to continue through Wednesday — that have stymied control efforts. \"So we resort to herding the fire away from structures and away from people, so that’s what we’re actively doing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That strategy has so far proved successful in protecting most buildings in the densely populated Tahoe basin and in many of the communities along the Highway 50 corridor heading up to Echo Summit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the fire had already reached into Meyers Tuesday, the flames had yet to extend into neighboring South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwab said crews were also still actively fighting the blaze in pockets of \"unburned islands\" along Highway 50 near Twin Bridges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are literally fire engines from here all the way down into Tahoe,\" he said. \"I did see some damage to structures. The fire burned through there extremely fast, extremely hot. And we did the best that we could. And we’re still in there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/kentphotos/status/1432902756117909507\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since sparking more than two weeks ago, the blaze has charred nearly 200,000 acres and destroyed nearly 500 homes, along with some 100 other structures, while continuing to threaten more than 33,000 more, officials said. It is now 18% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwab also said crews had kept the head of the fire — which jumped Highway 89 Monday night — from reaching the Heavenly Mountain Resort area, and were now putting in bulldozer lines and waiting for fire activity to \"settle down\" before beginning their attack. That growth prompted a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1432853046065709058\">mandatory evacuation order\u003c/a> for several communities just across the state line in Nevada — adding to the many thousands of people who have been forced to flee their homes in areas throughout the region, including the nearly 22,000 South Lake residents ordered to leave on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1432862340060381189\">new evacuation order\u003c/a> was also issued late Tuesday for a small section of Alpine County along Highway 88, near Kirkwood, where the fire gained ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[We'll] go back in and get it when the fire behaves and calms down on us,\" Schwab said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze, which on Monday jumped Highway 88, had not yet reached Kirkwood, he said, but a structure defense operation with 20 engines had been established there in preparation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire on Tuesday also jumped the control line on Wrights Lake Road, Schwab added, and was making a run east toward Wrights Lake and Desolation Wilderness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The undesirable trio of strong winds, low humidity and high temperatures continues to make the probability of ignition incredibly high, explained Cal Fire’s Stephen Vollmer, a fire behavior analyst. Those conditions enable active crown runs, where the fire jumps from treetop to treetop, sometimes casting embers more than a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So that's what's propagating the spread of the fire right now,\" he said. \"Those embers are landing in the very old, very dense fuels that are out there in the fire environment ... in an area that has not seen fire history all the way back before 1940.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A red flag warning will remain in place for the region through Wednesday night, amid ongoing windy gusts and low humidity, incident meteorologist Jim Dudley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think today is the worst of the weather days,\" he said. \"Tomorrow’s going to be another bad weather day — I’ll be honest with you — but it’ll be the last one of those.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dudley said winds were expected to weaken considerably by Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And that’s gonna make for a much better situation here on the fire footprint,\" he said. \"So keep that in mind. We’ve got to get through tonight and tomorrow. Things look better come Thursday.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although most of the southern and southwestern edges of the fire are now contained, officials said there is no timeline to repopulate most of those areas still under mandatory evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody is making every effort to get you back in your homes,\" said Sgt. Eric Palmberg with the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office. \"When these people determine it is safe to get back into our homes, we will put that information out and we will get you back in there as soon as we can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 4 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An army of firefighters faced an increasingly challenging fight against the Caldor Fire overnight, as the blaze's eastern flank continued to burn downslope from near Echo Summit into the Tahoe basin, with the fire establishing itself on both sides of Highway 89 south of Meyers — the third major roadway it has now jumped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushed by strong winds, flames on the eastern side of Highway 89 have now begun burning into the mountains on the other side of the valley, south of South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1432715647763550217?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We saw spotting distances of a half mile to a mile yesterday. The spots went all the way to the other side of the 89 and are working their way back up,\" said Tim Ernst, Cal Fire section chief, in a morning briefing Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews in the Christmas Valley area, near Meyers, worked overnight to protect homes on the west side of 89, as the fire backed down the slope behind them. Amazingly, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BrandonRittiman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1432811274845376513%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fww2.kqed.org%2Fnews%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D11886590action%3Deditclassic-editor\">there did not appear to be any significant structure loss in the neighborhoods that the flames had reached into\u003c/a>, according to ABC10 reporter Brandon Rittiman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just want to show you how close the Caldor Fire came to getting some of these structures. You can see the blackened forest just right up into the backyards,\" Rittiman said in a Twitter video posted on Tuesday afternoon, which he filmed near the intersection of Highway 89 and Santa Claus Drive. \"I don't see any structures lost down here, which is just incredible given the way-big flame lengths that we were seeing last night.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, \"This took a lot of work from fire crews.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BrandonRittiman/status/1432811274845376513\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in similarly positive news, a Cal Fire firefighter told KQED's Beth LaBerge that all structures at the Sierra at Tahoe ski resort — where the blaze had run through on Sunday night — were saved except for one vehicle maintenance building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1432807453343633409\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters are likely to face even more challenging conditions and very dangerous rates of fire spread Tuesday, as winds are expected to pick up significantly and a red flag warning remains in effect until 11 p.m. Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have even more flow coming across the fire to cause more turbulent winds, [with] gusts to 45 mph, maybe 50 mph depending on where you are,\" said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley on Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stronger winds will be more pronounced at higher elevations, he said, with the general wind direction pushing the fire toward South Lake Tahoe to the northeast and further into the mountains to the east. But crews will likely have to contend with more chaotic winds on the valley floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can't emphasize [enough] the wind issues we're going to have up top,\" Dudley said. \"That wind is going to channel through the canyons and drainages up there. The overall direction is going to want to take it off to the northeast and east, but when you're down on the terrain it's going to be all over the place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jeff Ike, Cal Fire incident commander\"]'This fire is going to stand up and rip. Under no circumstances get in front of the head of this fire.'[/pullquote]Those winds mean the Caldor Fire will likely continue to grow at dangerous rates of spread — with crown fires torching large trees and throwing embers for long distances, especially in drainages that align with the southwesterly wind direction, said Stephen Vollmer, Cal Fire fire behavior analyst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every day when those trees torch out we've got that long distance spotting. Today is not going to be any different,\" Vollmer said Tuesday morning. \"We're going to see rates of spread go up to about 200 feet per minute, and the spotting distances go over a mile.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Extremely dry conditions also mean extremely high rates of ignition for spot fires created by those embers. \"Ignition is about 90%,\" Vollmer said. \"But it probably should be about 150%.\" Vollmer said long-distance spotting would likely continue for the next two days due to forecast winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This fire is going to stand up and rip,\" said Cal Fire incident commander Jeff Ike on Tuesday morning, emphasizing the danger for fire crews and advising them to stay out of the fire's direct path. \"Under no circumstances get in front of the head of this fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thick smoke prevented air firefighting operations periodically last week. But since then, nearly two dozen helicopters and three air tankers dumped thousands of gallons of water and retardant on the fire, fire spokesperson Dominic Polito said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of South Lake Tahoe, usually bustling with summer tourists, was eerily empty Tuesday morning, the air thick with smoke from the approaching blaze. On Monday, thousands of residents jammed Highway 50 heading toward Nevada — one of the only exit routes — after being ordered by authorities to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ARCGoldCountry/status/1432760035143081984\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials said only a handful defied the order. But nearly everyone worried Tuesday about what the fire would do next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just kind of sucks waiting. I mean, I know it’s close down that way,” said Russ Crupi, gesturing south from his home in the Heavenly Valley Estates mobile home park, which he and his wife manage. He had arranged sprinklers and tractors around the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m worried about what’ll be here when people come back. People want to come back to their houses and that’s what I’m going to try to do,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TahoeWarmRoom/status/1432768289629884416\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>José Mora, 37, a construction worker from South Lake Tahoe, waited until yesterday's evacuation order to leave town, jumping in his car with just a bag of clothes. He moved here as a young child from his native Jalisco, Mexico, where many of South Lake's Latino residents come from. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/southlaketahoecitycalifornia\">Latino community here, which has grown markedly in recent years\u003c/a>, now accounts for more than 30% of the city's population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mora, who on Tuesday was sheltering at the Carson City Community Center, said if the area is hit hard by the fire, he'll likely have to relocate in search of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it burns, it's going to be hard, a lot of years to recover, and it's not going to be the same,\" he said. \"It's going to take years to be where we're at right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Tuesday morning, the Caldor Fire had burned over 191,607 acres, destroyed at least 669 structures, and was 16% contained. Just five injuries have so far been reported since the start of the blaze more than two weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSSacramento/status/1432686814553378822\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 6 p.m. Monday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews continued battling the Caldor Fire's advancing eastern perimeter along the Highway 50 corridor near Echo Summit on Monday afternoon, after officials put the entirety of South Lake Tahoe under a mandatory evacuation order late Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a rough long day for the troops up there today. But they have been decently successful,” said Cody Bogan, a Cal Fire operations section chief, during an evening briefing. “Luckily the fuel’s kind of run out and it kind of slowed the fire progression down, up on that north piece.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SRodd_CPR/status/1432512413576749059\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire was casting embers up to half a mile earlier Monday, according to fire officials, causing spot fires to ignite downslope into the Tahoe basin. The blaze, which has now charred more than 186,500 acres and is only 15% contained, continues to pose a serious threat to the basin amid a red flag warning due to higher winds and exceptionally dry conditions. That \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSSacramento/status/1432410570955706376?s=20\">warning has been extended until 11 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearer air in the area allowed some aircraft to provide much-needed support from above on Monday, Bogan said, with firefighters on the ground continuing to chase spot fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further south, along the fire's southeastern flank, crews were unable to keep the blaze from jumping Highway 88 for the first time, into Amador County. The fire jumped the highway approximately two miles west of Kirkwood, and was pushing eastward toward the resort area. Kirkwood was placed under mandatory evacuation orders on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Highway 88 corridor got hit pretty hard today,” Bogan said, noting that bulldozers were digging line to try to cut it off and “get it tamed back” onto the north side of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among Monday's positive developments: Firefighters have been successful in protecting the town of Strawberry, which just days earlier was under imminent threat, Bogan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything through Strawberry’s looking a lot better now. They’re continuing to mop up around structures and trying to secure things,” he said of the community that lies along Highway 50 on the western side of the pass, east of Twin Bridges. “As of right now, there’s been no structure loss in the Strawberry area that we are aware of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bogan also called it “a very successful day” in the southwestern sections of the fire, near where it first ignited two weeks ago, with crews making steady containment gains. That progress prompted officials late Monday to downgrade evacuation orders to warnings in several nearby areas close to Omo Ranch Road, near the Amador/El Dorado County line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conditions, he added, were also “looking real good” heading northeast toward the Pollock Pines area, with “no real issues at all to report,” although evacuation orders there remained in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 3 p.m. Monday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 22,000 South Lake Tahoe residents were ordered to evacuate late Monday morning as the Caldor Fire continued its rapid advance eastward, crossing Echo Summit and threatening to extend further into the Tahoe basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's something that's always in the back of your mind that you hope never happens,\" said South Lake Mayor Pro Tem Devin Middlebrook, who evacuated late Sunday night. \"But here we are today, with this threat to our community. And it's something that we, as a city and as a community, have been preparing for, and hopefully that preparation pays off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sullyfoto/status/1432427762271145987\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By early Monday afternoon, vehicles packed to the brim with bikes, camping gear and other personal belongings — some even towing boats — were backed up for miles in the thick, brown air along eastbound Highway 50 heading toward Nevada, the main evacuation route, as residents anxiously waited to escape the smoke-choked basin. One man broke out his violin and played a mournful melody as he ambled along the vast line of motionless cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/JoshEdelson/status/1432431380588228608\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a systematic evacuation, one neighborhood at a time,\" South Lake Tahoe police Lt. Travis Cabral said on social media. \"I am asking you as our community to please remain calm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An evacuation order is defined as an immediate threat to life. \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/14L8o2P-uvwSK_gyLCnhFRTon7nzLUNo2t98HjP30uAY/edit\">Evacuation shelters\u003c/a> are located at Truckee Veterans Hall and the Douglas County Community and Senior Center in Gardnerville, Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1432405511014522886\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The orders come as the eastern edge of the Caldor Fire continues its rapid advance. On Sunday night, the blaze extended 8 1/2 miles up to the border of the Tahoe basin, incinerating cabins and other structures in the forest along Highway 50 between Twin Bridges and Echo Summit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Monday morning, the blaze had grown to more than 177,000 acres — a run of more than 20,000 acres over just one day — leaping over hard-fought containment lines cut with bulldozers, as crews battled the flames on multiple sides. The fire remained only 14% contained, down from 19% containment earlier this weekend, after rapid growth on the northeast and southern edges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By midday Monday, the fire had breached several points along the ridge and begun its descent into the basin, reaching spots around Lower Echo Lake and parts of Desolation Wilderness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So there's fire in the basin,\" Cal Fire Chief Thom Porter reported solemnly at a Monday afternoon briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Caldor is a real tough one for us,\" he said, noting the steep challenges firefighters face controlling the northeastern edge's side of the massive blaze, which continues to churn through rugged, difficult-to-reach terrain. \"It's been burning in heavy timber, just very, very difficult conditions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter said last week's inversion layer in the atmosphere, which helped keep a lid on the fire, disappeared yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the air clears, it's like taking the lid off of your pot of boiling water — all of a sudden there's that plume of heat and steam that comes out. Same thing happens on a fire,\" he said. \"Also sucks in oxygen from all directions, puts fire and spot fires in all directions. That's what happened yesterday.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials are still assessing last night’s damage in the El Dorado County communities the fire swept through, including the Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort, where snowmaking equipment had been activated in the hopes of gaining some protection from the blaze. More than 600 structures have already been destroyed, and at least 20,000 more were threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/JoshEdelson/status/1432296909645832192\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weather conditions were expected to worsen throughout the day, with strong wind gusts and low humidity raising concerns of erratic fire behavior and prompting the National Weather Service to issue a \u003ca href=\"https://www.weather.gov/sto/\">red flag warning\u003c/a> extending through Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter underscored the unprecedented ferocity of California fires this season , which is still just in its early stages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We haven't had fires burn from one side of the Sierras to the other. [But] we did with the Dixie, now we have with the Caldor. Two times in our history, and they're both happening this month,\" he said, urging residents to be prepared and evacuate as early as possible. \"We need to be really cognizant that there is fire activity happening in California that we have never seen before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/kentphotos/status/1432306480854667265\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 10 p.m. Sunday\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nEvacuation orders and warnings hit South Lake Tahoe and additional areas in the Tahoe basin on Sunday night after a challenging weekend for crews battling the massive Caldor Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation orders in El Dorado County were extended to include the community of Meyers and communities south of Meyers along Highway 89 to the Alpine County line. An evacuation warning is now in effect for the remainder of El Dorado County in the Tahoe basin, including all of South Lake Tahoe and communities along the southern shores of the lake north to the Placer County line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional evacuation orders in Alpine County included the Kirkwood Mountain Resort and Caples Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Lake Tahoe's main medical facility, Barton Memorial Hospital, proactively evacuated 36 patients needing skilled nursing and 16 in acute care beds Sunday, sending them to regional facilities far from the fire, public information officer Mindi Befu said. The rest of the hospital was evacuating following Monday's expanded orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BartonHealth/status/1432201690569076738?s=19\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials sounded resigned in a community meeting Sunday evening, as new evacuation orders were issued across El Dorado and Alpine counties in the wake of \"extreme rates\" of fire spread, said Eric Schwab, Cal Fire's operation section chief.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jim Dudley, Cal Fire incident meteorologist\"]'Today's been the hottest, driest day so far on the fire.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">evacuation orders\u003c/a> include Meyers, just 7 miles south of South Lake Tahoe, which itself was issued an evacuation warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A couple days ago I really felt we were turning the corner with it,\" Schwab told the community. But without adequate staffing and with changing weather conditions, firefighters found themselves playing defense over the weekend, fire officials said — not so much stopping the spread, as working to save structures from the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwab said that in the last two weeks, the Caldor Fire's perimeter had advanced less than a half mile, but on Sunday the perimeter \"moved about 2 1/2 miles on us with no sign it's slowing down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In those conditions, Schwab said, fire crews moved to their No. 1 priority: evacuating people and preserving life. Much of their defense of structures was around Highway 50 and the Kirkwood Mountain Resort, with 25 strike teams of engines, 25 bulldozers and 25 hand crews set to defend nearby structures Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the wind blows like this, our primary modes are one — hold onto what we have,\" Schwab said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A favorable turn in weather Saturday afternoon allowed firefighters to make progress and increase containment of the fire to 19%, up from 12% the day before, said Capt. Stephen Horner, a Cal Fire spokesperson for the Caldor Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sunday's effort was far more of a struggle, with crews having to carry hoses by hand through rough terrain. Triple-digit weather also lies ahead through Tuesday, leaving little optimism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s been a rough day and there’s no bones about it,\" said Jeff Marsolais, forest supervisor for Eldorado National Forest. A few days ago, he thought crews could halt the Caldor Fire's eastern progress, but “today it let loose.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/R5_Fire_News/status/1432142906119364608\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Eleven days ago we had 240 people, and that was it to try to work and contain this fire,\" said Keith Wade, a Cal Fire captain and public information officer. \"Now we're upwards of 3,500 personnel. … That means more help. And that means more containment lines getting down on the ground.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 7 p.m. Saturday\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Cal Fire has ordered evacuations across portions of El Dorado County, including near Echo Summit. Cal Fire also asked other communities near Echo Summit — like Christmas Valley near Highway 89 — to prepare for that possibility. Check Cal Fire's incident page for \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">a full list of evacuation orders\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massive blaze has raged across a vast expanse of steep, mountainous terrain southwest of Lake Tahoe and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/21/map-caldor-fire-structure-damage/\">destroyed more than 470 structures\u003c/a> since igniting on Aug. 14, even as the fire continued to advance northeast toward the much more populated Tahoe basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some low humidity on Saturday afternoon increased fire activity, according to Cal Fire, with erratic winds casting embers up to half a mile from the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today's been the hottest, driest day so far on the fire,\" said Jim Dudley, Cal Fire incident meteorologist, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CALFIREAEU/videos/1202995556829423\">a Saturday evening community meeting\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday night and Monday, wind will increase, Dudley said, prompting officials to call a red flag warning for the northern Sierra and the southern Cascades, which takes effect 11 a.m. Monday through Tuesday evening. Those conditions may mean more \"rapid spread of fire,\" according to the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSSacramento/status/1431739221140668419\">National Weather Service\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials said they'll expect to see increased fire activity Sunday and Monday morning, since an inversion layer of air is expected to bottle up smoky air in the area and release it those mornings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visibility improved enough near Saturday evening to allow Cal Fire to bring in more air support, said Cal Fire Section Chief Cody Bogan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1430676198099591169\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: Updated 8 p.m. Friday\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAs of Friday morning, much of the southwestern and western flanks of the sprawling Caldor Fire, along with its southern perimeter, had been largely contained, with no major growth reported, fire officials said. Cal Fire Operations Section Chief Erich Schwab echoed that sentiment about the southwestern portion of the blaze in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CALFIREAEU/videos/143879924593222/?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZVbYUAtW09muDQHgYMvpoOyg-iiNyt8bTlt0XzI13BuilkJLhDjyrQKPKO04xSFaV9sVB2nIG0ag7n0AsAhJdWIZBQFHGjeqPyTJ_4jZYn68ZoyESqivZv3xdf_JqBckwAkIz7rnQRLgZPxjwiGgIjZV8UilVZdXIEd9md-x3R9Bw&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\">evening briefing\u003c/a>, saying fire officials were \"finally comfortable and confident that that's not going to move any further.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwab said technical burning operations on the northwestern edge of the fire — the portion closest to Placerville — resulted in some minor spot fires, which were difficult to fight in extremely limited visibility due to smoke. \"We hope to get it boxed in,\" Schwab said, as a daylong smoke inversion had lifted and allowed an air attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most active and dangerous portions of the Caldor Fire remain the eastern and northeastern sections currently burning toward the Lake Tahoe basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most problematic flank of the blaze — the northeastern section, which has jumped Highway 50 between Kyburz and Strawberry — \"got very active [Thursday] and jumped over our proposed control line and ran about 800 acres ... burning up to the 7,500 elevation line,\" Schwab said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fuels are extremely critical up there,\" he added. \"Fuels that normally wouldn't be available to burn actively are burning with extreme conditions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That portion of the fire has also \"completely torched\" much of the area along Highway 50 between Kyburz and Strawberry, hurling fallen trees and other debris onto the roadway, said Cal Fire Section Chief Tim Ernst earlier on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This road is extremely treacherous right now,\" Ernst added, while noting that firefighters have so far been able to protect all the structures in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1431383703238819843?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, Schwab sounded a note of optimism Friday evening regarding the blaze's eastern section south of Highway 50, calling it a \"success story for today.\" Crews were able to establish multiple bulldozer containment lines east of where the fire is burning — that is, between the fire and the Tahoe basin — and Schwab was hopeful that planned overnight backfire operations would succeed in halting the blaze's eastern progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Answering a question about the likelihood of the blaze reaching the Tahoe basin, Schwab said, \"We're doing everything that we can to ensure that it doesn't. ... That's why [the eastern branch of the fire south of Highway 50] is such a critical priority for us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for winds that could significantly drive the fire, Cal Fire incident meteorologist Jim Dudley said Friday evening that relatively light winds are forecast for the weekend, but that the situation could change Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You'll probably be hearing terms like 'possibly a red flag might be coming out this weekend for strong winds for Monday,'\" said Cal Fire incident met\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Monica Lam contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Since the Caldor Fire first erupted on Aug. 14, the blaze has devoured nearly than 217,000 acres and destroyed at least 776 homes, forcing mass evacuations. As of Tuesday morning, it was 49% contained.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1631121809,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["//www.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":253,"wordCount":10058},"headData":{"title":"Caldor Fire Nearly 50% Contained, As Crews Continue Battling 'Troublesome' Spots | KQED","description":"Since the Caldor Fire first erupted on Aug. 14, the blaze has devoured nearly than 217,000 acres and destroyed at least 776 homes, forcing mass evacuations. As of Tuesday morning, it was 49% contained.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Caldor Fire Nearly 50% Contained, As Crews Continue Battling 'Troublesome' Spots","datePublished":"2021-09-07T18:01:15.000Z","dateModified":"2021-09-08T17:23:29.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11886590 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11886590","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/09/07/despite-containment-gains-caldor-fire-continues-march-toward-tahoe-basin/","disqusTitle":"Caldor Fire Nearly 50% Contained, As Crews Continue Battling 'Troublesome' Spots","path":"/news/11886590/despite-containment-gains-caldor-fire-continues-march-toward-tahoe-basin","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cem>Find \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/IMT6\">the latest on evacuation orders and warnings\u003c/a>, including a map from the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office, as well as \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/IMT6\">current shelter information for evacuees\u003c/a>. Follow \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU\">Cal Fire AEU on Twitter\u003c/a> for up-to-date information. This post, originally published on Aug. 27, was continually updated through Sept. 7. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 11 a.m. Tuesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite rising temperatures and low humidity, fire crews made steady progress in an ongoing quest to subdue the massive Caldor Fire, with almost 50% of the voracious blaze contained as of Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Which means we don't expect any movement of the fire outside those containment lines,\" said Cal Fire Operations Section Chief Tim Ernst, proudly pointing to the solid black containment lines ringing most of the southern and southwestern sections of the perimeter, nearly up the Highway 50 corridor to Kyburz. \"As a matter of fact, yesterday we didn't have any significant runs of the fire that pushed any of those containment lines, nor did we have any significant spots. So that's a great accomplishment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1392px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11887695 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1392\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM.png 1392w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM-800x468.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM-1020x596.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.31.07-AM-160x94.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1392px) 100vw, 1392px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of Cal Fire Incident Commander Tim Ernst during Tuesday morning's Caldor Fire update, as he points to hard-fought black containment lines along the blaze's southern and southwestern flank. \u003ccite>(Cal Fire via Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But even as communities in the South Lake Tahoe basin and other recently evacuated areas returned home this weekend, Ernst noted the blaze was far from quenched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said crews were still contending with \"troublesome\" areas in its northern and eastern reaches, including near Wrights Lake, northwest of Highway 50, where a tenacious offshoot of the blaze had entered Desolation Wilderness.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1434942634544361473"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>And while crews in the basin made incremental progress beefing up containment efforts near Heavenly Mountain Resort, staving off any major structural damage in the vicinity, the eastern flank of the blaze continued to push against the Highway 88 corridor, posing a lingering threat to the Kirkwood Mountain Resort community. Ernst, though, said crews had just done firing operations near homes in that area — referring to the tactic of intentionally burning brush and other fuels as a preventive measure — and were now\u003cbr>\n\"seeing much better results there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire, which first sparked on Aug. 14 near Grizzly Flats, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1435245060136652804\">has destroyed at least 776 homes\u003c/a> and devoured more than 216,000 acres. Full containment of the blaze is expected by Sept. 27, Cal Fire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Explore a map of current Caldor Fire activity:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003csmall>\u003ca style=\"color: #0000ff;text-align: left\" href=\"//www.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=50e4ec29f91141be9af4cad557147544&extent=-121.2534,38.3922,-119.2251,39.2631&zoom=true&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=true&legendlayers=true&disable_scroll=true&theme=light\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clear here to view larger map (or if not loading on mobile)\u003c/a>\u003c/small>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" title=\"Current Wildfire Perimeters\" src=\"//www.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=50e4ec29f91141be9af4cad557147544&extent=-121.2534,38.3922,-119.2251,39.2631&zoom=true&previewImage=false&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=true&legendlayers=true&disable_scroll=false&theme=light\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 6 p.m. Monday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Containment on the Caldor Fire improved over Labor Day weekend to 44% as fire officials let people return to South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The repopulation of South Lake Tahoe began on Sunday afternoon after the evacuation order for the city of more than 20,000 people was downgraded to an evacuation warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This includes everything within the city limits, the area north of State Highway 50 between the Nevada state line and the Lake Tahoe airport, and all properties on both sides of Highway 89 from Emerald Bay north through Tahoma, among a few other spots in El Dorado County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887662\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1288px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11887662 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/evacuation-map-2021.jpg\" alt=\"A map of the southern shore of Lake Tahoe. Tahoma, Fallen Leaf A, South Lake Tahoe, and Lower and Upper Kingsbury are in yellow.\" width=\"1288\" height=\"859\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/evacuation-map-2021.jpg 1288w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/evacuation-map-2021-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/evacuation-map-2021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/evacuation-map-2021-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1288px) 100vw, 1288px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">While South Lake Tahoe has been downgraded to an evacuation warning, many other parts of El Dorado County remain under an evacuation order. On Sept. 5, Cal Fire AED published this map to show which areas remain under an evacuation order (violet) and which are now under an evacuation warning (yellow). \u003ccite>(Cal Fire Amador-El Dorado Unit)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, fire crews made progress in containing the flames along the northwest and northeast sections of the perimeter, including the section closest to South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"A lot of great work has gone on there,\" said Cal Fire Operations Section Chief Tim Ernst in a Monday morning community briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the morning of Labor Day, fire officials also signaled that conditions on Monday are a lot drier, which could make the work of containing what is left of the Caldor Fire much more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I cannot emphasize how dry things are across this fire today. The humidity was very, very poor recovery last night,\" said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley, who also added that the wind is blowing a lot more strongly than it did during the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With stronger winds comes a greater risk of embers flying out and widening the perimeter of the fire, Stephen Vollmer, fire analyst with Cal Fire, reminded fire crews Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got this thing, we're wrapping our arms around it. We're trying to take it down, but don't get complacent on it,\" he said. \"Stay focused.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Highway 50 has reopened from the Nevada border to the South Lake Tahoe city limits to allow residents back in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are really excited to get back into town,\" said Mayor of South Lake Tahoe Tamara Wallace. She was quick to point out that the repopulation effort does not include all of El Dorado County and that there are many other communities still under an evacuation order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's … a testament to the firefighters and their amazing work that we are able to get back into our homes and all our homes are safe,\" said Wallace, who for the moment plans to hold off for a few days until she returns to her own home in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's limited services,\" she explained, pointing to the fact that, as of Monday morning, only one grocery store in the entire city had reopened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Wallace and Cal Fire recommend that residents who are allowed to return to their homes first stock up on groceries, gas and other essential supplies before making the trip back. This also goes for folks who don't live full-time in South Lake Tahoe but have a cabin or property in the area and want to check up on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a fire has burned through an area, many dangers remain: Damage to buildings can make them unstable; debris and downed trees can block roads; and downed utility lines pose serious electrical and other hazards. Fire officials also warn that the risk of flooding remains high for weeks and months after a wildfire, due to the amount of destroyed vegetation that once stabilized the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 10 a.m. Saturday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Saturday morning, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1434186869915357187\">Cal Fire AEU reported a continued decrease in fire behavior\u003c/a> \"thanks to a slight rise in humidity levels and decrease in temperatures.\" Ongoing inspections for damage continue, but Cal Fire said 75% of structures were assessed. The fire is still most active on the south side of Echo Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://fires.airfire.org/outlooks/LakeTahoeBasin\">smoke outlook for the Tahoe area\u003c/a> is expected to be between moderate to unhealthy throughout the day with some light winds predicted to provide some relief. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd945702.pdf\">temporary closure of all national forests in California\u003c/a> is still in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 5:30 p.m. Friday \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As fire crews manage the seemingly insurmountable feat of beating back the Caldor Fire from South Lake Tahoe, one question has been repeatedly aired by the public: When will people be allowed back?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prospects are \"looking good\" for repopulating South Lake Tahoe, said U.S. Forest Service Operations Sections Chief Jake Cagle, but it depends on the weather and the efforts of hundreds of people — so officially, there's no answer yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Cagle said, \"we're getting close.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Lake Tahoe Fire Chief Clive Savacool said he and his fellow firefighters have been evacuated from their homes as well, \"so we can empathize with you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savacool thanked South Lake Tahoe citizens for pushing for more information, and said, \"I wanted to assure you we're going to get you home as soon as we can, as soon as the fire is safe. ... It's also our position to be your voice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Caldor Fire has burned 212,907 acres as of Friday evening, and is 29% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Repopulating areas that have been evacuated was on the minds of most fire officials at Friday evening's community meeting, as they downgraded various areas from evacuation orders — which mandate evacuations — to warnings, which merely caution them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas downgraded Friday afternoon include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>South Sly Park: South of Starkes Grade Road, north of Sly Park Creek, east of Pleasant Valley Road up to and including the Diamond Garnet subdivision.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Grizzly Flats West: East of Highway E16, west of Steely Ridge Road, south of the North Fork of the Cosumnes River and north of the Middle Fork of the Cosumnes River.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Happy Valley: All properties accessed from Happy Valley Road.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Other fronts of the fire showed signs of fire crews finding success, including Christmas Valley, with fire officials saying \"everything looks good\" there, and Sierra Springs and the Lower Pines area both being downgraded to evacuation warnings, from orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savacool had one more thought to reassure South Lake Tahoe citizens: We're making sure the bears aren't rummaging around your homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've gotten a lot of calls and concerns about the bears in town,\" Savacool said Friday evening. He said law enforcement is \"patrolling 24/7 to make sure your homes are safe, to scare off the bears, so your homes are protected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Make sure to check for full and up-to-date evacuation orders and warnings \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/IMT6\">with Cal Fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 2 p.m. Friday \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Caldor Fire has so far been successfully steered from South Lake Tahoe thanks to a break in weather conditions, defensive fire prevention and a continuous push from fire crews, officials said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the fire has encroached on nearby areas, like Christmas Valley, and fire officials said the battle is far from over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Friday afternoon community briefing, Anthony Scardina, deputy regional forester with the United States Forest Service, said a lot of the day's success came from defensive field treatments like forest thinning and prescribed burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were conditions where there were 150-foot flame lengths, and when they hit, those field treatments worked, bringing them down to 20-foot flame lengths,\" Scardina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But we're still not out of the woods,\" he said. \"We're having some success, but there's still a lot of fire on the landscape. And weather conditions can change pretty quickly, as you've seen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some evacuation orders were downgraded to evacuation warnings as of 2 p.m. Friday afternoon, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The area south of Pleasant Valley between Bucks Bar Road and Newtown Road\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>East of Bucks Bar Road\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The areas of Gopher Hole Road and Moon-Shadow\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The area just south of U.S. Highway 50, north of Starkes Grade Road\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>East of Snows Road\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>West of Fresh Pond\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The successful field treatments that aided fire efforts this week were the result of 10 years of fire prevention, Scardina said, and that's work that needs to be ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have forest conditions that are overstocked. They're too dense, and you combine that with a series of years of drought, and combine that with some of the warming temperatures we've seen,\" he said, \"with those three elements we have to continue working on them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 9 a.m. Friday \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire expressed cautious optimism this morning, after another night of more favorable weather conditions allowed them to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">inch up containment on the Caldor Fire to 29%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'll sum everything up with the incident with the words 'cautiously optimistic,'\" Cal Fire Section Chief Tim Ernst said at the Friday morning briefing. \"The humidities came in again last night, and fortunately we've had no significant fire runs through the entire shift yesterday. So we've definitely turned that corner.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernst credited the consistent hard work of fire crews for saving thousands of homes and countless acres of forest. More than 4,400 firefighters are currently on the ground and in the air fighting the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since first erupting on Aug. 14, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1433791946573504519\">the massive blaze\u003c/a> has destroyed 661 homes and devoured nearly 213,000 acres, while continuing to threaten some 32,000 other structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While overall conditions are still dry, firefighters are taking advantage of the marginally improved humidity and reduced winds to secure key areas, like those along the Highway 50 corridor and near the Heavenly Mountain Resort.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1433794960201957376"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\"We are going into a new phase in the weather,\" said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley. \"We're going back to the inversion. We got the smoke.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dudley said that while this weather will result in lighter winds, regular terrain-driven winds throughout the day will continue to be a challenge because of their unpredictability and tendency to move in \"squirrely directions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters are also working to improve containment lines near Meyers and South Lake Tahoe, where the blaze continues to be active. Northeast of the Pioneer Trail, hand crews and bulldozers are working to build lines that would usher the fire toward Cold Creek, where containment is more secure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across Highway 50, at Lower Echo Lake, firefighters worked through the night extinguishing hot spots and battling the fire directly to keep it from spreading to nearby cabins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11886903","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51240_GettyImages-1337303910-qut-1020x674.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Christmas Valley, which sits just south of South Lake Tahoe, remains among the areas of greatest concern. The fire is still very active in the area, prompting firefighters last night to build control lines to coax it east toward Saxon Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not out of the woods, but we have not seen any growth there as well,\" Ernst said. Crews, he added, will continue to focus heavily on that area today in an effort to contain the fire's spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another big priority Friday is securing areas near homes so officials can begin lifting evacuation orders and allowing residents to return. Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Cal_OES/status/1433815874796863491\">48,000 people\u003c/a> in the region still remain under evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While acknowledging the positive developments, officials urged residents not to get complacent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got this thing kind of lassoed. We just need to keep holding on to it with what we've got,\" said Stephen Vollmer, a fire analyst with Cal Fire. \"So know that there's still a lot of hot material out there, know that there's a lot of unburned islands in the middle of this thing that could still threaten our line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's especially true, he said, along much of Highway 50, an area that remains hot and windy, where embers can still blow up to half a mile into unburned islands of brush and start new spot fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paraphrasing from a World War II speech by Winston Churchill, U.S. Forest Service Supervisor Dean Gould said: \"This isn't the end. It's not the beginning of the end, but it's the end of the beginning. So please keep that in mind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 6:30 p.m. Thursday \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Favorable weather conditions Thursday gave firefighters a slight advantage, as they worked to keep the Caldor Fire from moving into populated areas in the Tahoe basin and nearby communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has already destroyed 649 homes, and some 32,000 more structures are still under threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following three extremely gusty, dry red flag condition days that fueled the spread of the fire — which is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">27% contained\u003c/a> — calmer winds throughout much of the massive fire area helped an army of more than 4,400 firefighters gain some ground.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1433280641919971333"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Those conditions are expected to continue through Saturday and possibly even Sunday, giving weary crews a crucial window to make steady containment gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Weather’s gotten better. We got good news on the weather front. The light winds will continue for about two to three days,” said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley during the Thursday evening briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That decrease in winds means a decrease in fire activity, particularly the spot fires that have been largely responsible for spreading this blaze, added Stephen Vollmer, a fire analyst with Cal Fire. Although ignition rates will remain very high, he said embers were now being cast less than half a mile, down from over a mile just days ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Which is great for the resources on the ground, so we can get in there and mop up all those hot spots,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a sign of improved conditions, officials on Thursday \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1433478019654426658\">downgraded mandatory evacuation orders\u003c/a> to warnings in the area of Omo Ranch, on the southwestern heel of the fire — where there is a growing segment of continuous containment line — and lifted evacuation warnings altogether in several nearby communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we did get today is a little bit of good news. The colors are starting to change,\" said John Davis, a Cal Fire liaison officer, pointing to the updated recent evacuation map. “Everyone's getting in here, doing the work necessary to put everybody back as soon as safely possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters on Thursday were also able to maintain control over a stubborn section of fire along Butte Creek and Sturdevant Ridge, north of Grizzly Flats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This continued to be probably one of our major challenges for the first two weeks of the incident,\" said Cal Fire Section Chief Tim Ernst. “By [containing it], we were able to save about 600 or 700 structures, over 10,000 additional acres in this area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heading up Highway 50 into the Tahoe basin, fire activity continued at Lower Echo Lake, where firefighters yesterday were ferried by boat to protect and prepare structures. Crews on Thursday worked along the edges of the blaze to steer it away from cabins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite earlier concerns, the fire had not spread to the area of Upper Truckee Road, where crews worked to put in contingency line up to Fallen Leaf Lake, in case conditions change. \"Right now there's not imminent threat or anticipation that it's going to get in there,\" said Cal Fire Operations Section Chief Jake Cagle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While crews made overall progress on the fire Thursday, the northeastern edge of the blaze continued to menace communities in the Tahoe basin as it moved toward the Nevada state line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That tongue of fire was still \"bumping up\" against the border of Heavenly Mountain Resort, Tahoe’s largest ski area, although the blaze was not spreading as fast as it has in recent days, Ernst said. He said crews there are continuing to shore up the northeast perimeter by putting in strong bulldozer lines and removing hazardous trees, in a thus-far successful effort to protect nearby housing developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was some increased fire activity in the area on Thursday, with crews working the edge of the blaze and trying to push it toward the power line grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resort, which is now being used as a staging area by firefighters, also brought out its big guns — snowmaking devices that were being used to hose down buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thick smoke continues to envelop South Lake Tahoe, which remains under a mandatory evacuation order and is all but deserted at a time when it would normally be swarming with tourists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After casinos and stores closed on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe on Wednesday morning, evacuees lined up outside the MontBleu Resort Casino & Spa in Stateline, waiting for a bus to take them to Reno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cagle also said crews had made good progress on the fire's northeastern flank in a bid to prevent it from crossing into Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lower end of that same spur of the fire, roughly 3 miles south of South Lake Tahoe, also continued to threaten communities in Meyers and Christmas Valley. Firefighters there, aided by air tankers, hustled Thursday to keep the flames as high up on the eastern ridge as possible, and away from dense concentrations of homes. But Christmas Valley was looking good by day's end Thursday, Cagle said, noting that crews there were being \"extremely aggressive.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1433450121698574337"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Crews were also still struggling to gain control over the blaze near the Kirkwood ski resort area, to the south of the basin. Aircraft bombarded the area with water and retardant throughout day, as hand crews and bulldozers put in line to keep the blaze from coming down the ridge into the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since first sparking on Aug. 14, the blaze has charred nearly 211,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 9 a.m. Thursday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news: Improved weather is expected to continue today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We lost the winds aloft. It's a good day today to not have gusty winds up on the ridges,\" said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley at a Thursday morning briefing. \"What we are going to have today are terrain-driven winds,\" which occur as the sun heats the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, those winds, he warned, tend to be \"quite variable in direction,\" and given the ongoing dry conditions can still easily spark spot fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the west side of the blaze, firefighters are working to secure the Highway 50 corridor and keep the fire from burning cabins near Wrights Lake on the edge of Desolation Wilderness, in hopes the granite fields there will block its advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got a lot of resources heading up there to make sure we prevent any fire spread from heading back to the west,\" said Beale Monday, a U.S. Forest Service operations section chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a positive development, crews overnight were able to use air support to drop water near the Kirkwood ski resort, holding back the blaze, which is hung up on a ridge just outside the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials on Thursday planned to fly in pumps to bring more water into the area to reinforce containment lines and protect homes.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1433481005730435074"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Late Wednesday night, \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/01/president-joseph-r-biden-jr-approves-california-emergency-declaration/\">President Biden issued an emergency declaration for the Caldor Fire\u003c/a> — following a request from Gov. Gavin Newsom — directing federal assistance to support state, local and tribal officials in battling the blaze. The order also authorizes the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate disaster relief efforts and provide assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the fire has charred more than 210,000 acres, only five injuries — three firefighters and two civilians — have been reported so far, with no fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire managers on Wednesday also announced a major change in command structure, with the fire now divided into a western and eastern zone, each managed by separate teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 8 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing a third consecutive red flag warning day amid dry, blustery conditions, thousands of firefighters labored Wednesday to block the ravenous Caldor Fire from reaching two major ski resort areas near Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews doubled down on efforts to corral a large finger of the blaze that was rapidly spreading northeast toward Heavenly Mountain Resort and the Nevada state line, where it posed an immediate threat to South Lake Tahoe and neighboring communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Heavy, heavy resource commitment. We've got folks from all over the country here pushed into this entire area,\" Beale Monday, a U.S. Forest Service operations section chief, said on Wednesday. \"This is some very tough country. Very steep, very rugged. And it’s just not safe to try to put people right on the fire edge right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the fire was expected to spread further northeast, crossing into Nevada, and that crews with heavy equipment were doing prep work around the clock on sections of Highways 206, 207 and 88 to try to create “a catcher’s mitt as close to this as we possibly can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to have a lot of equipment, a lot of people working on this periphery out here,\" Monday said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze also skirted across the north side of Christmas Valley, with crews scrambling to keep flames east of Pioneer Trail and away from homes. Monday said there has so far been no reported damage to homes in the area.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1433152762645291012"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>South of the Tahoe basin, crews hardened their defense of the Kirkwood ski area along Highway 88, where strong, erratic winds continued to fuel the blaze, spreading spot fires dangerously close to that community. As of Wednesday evening, the fire had not entered Kirkwood proper, Monday said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on the northwest side of the blaze, the fire on Wednesday continued moving aggressively up Wrights Lake Road off Highway 50 toward Desolation Wilderness. Aided by heavy air tankers dumping retardant, ground crews there moved quickly to connect control lines to the nearby granite fields in an effort to steer the blaze away from cabins and prevent it from spreading west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're actively engaged way up high here into the wilderness, trying to make sure that we do not get any more fire spread to the west,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wind-fueled spot fires continue to be the biggest hurdle to control efforts, said Stephen Vollmer, a fire analyst with Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They've been a problem since the very first day of this incident, and that's what's causing this fire to grow exponentially,\" he said. \"So we're battling what we can battle and waiting for those winds to subside so that we can get in there and actively engage those fires.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, crews also toiled to stop an offshoot of fire along the Highway 50 corridor east of Pollock Pines, as bulldozers tried to build a contingency line on the north side of the highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of our biggest fears is that fire jumping across the highway,\" Monday said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the many challenges firefighters continued to face, much progress had been made in various sections of the massive fire area, including most of the southern flank, where the perimeter remained strong, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things were also generally looking under control in much of the southwestern section of the blaze, near where it first ignited more than two weeks ago, he added, although crews were still working to connect containment lines there, after a fierce spot fire erupted Tuesday on a ridge above Sly Park Road — setting a bulldozer on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We still have a lot of work to do in there,\" Monday said. \"This has been a real troublesome spot for us over the last 14 to 15 days.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters, he said, were \"trying to put the wet stuff on the hot stuff as much as we can,\" hoping to \"call this line contained\" in the next few days and then begin repopulating much of the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11887278\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS51276_036_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A black bear cub hangs over a tree branch near a burned structure in Phillips on Tues., Aug. 31, 2021. The Caldor Fire spread through the area on Monday evening. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As containment lines grew, officials on Wednesday \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1433210214409408513\">downgraded an evacuation order to a warning\u003c/a> in the area near North Camino and Pollock Pines north of Highway 50 and west of Sly Park Road, allowing residents there to return to their homes for the first time in about two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some 53,000 residents in El Dorado County alone were still under evacuation orders Wednesday. Officials have not given a timeline for when those areas can be repopulated, noting the many steps necessary before lifting evacuation orders, including removing firefighting equipment, cutting down damaged trees, and getting critical infrastructure running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an expected positive turn in the weather in the coming days may help hasten those repopulation efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finally some good news on the weather side here on this fire,” said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley, emphasizing that the region's red flag warning would finally be ending late Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While dry conditions will continue into tomorrow, with high ignition rates, he said the strong, erratic winds that have so effectively fueled the fire in recent days are likely to subside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And getting into Friday, the winds get even lighter,\" he said. \"So the issues and conditions that weather was causing, especially for the last couple of days, are going to be mitigated by much lighter winds across the fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burning since Aug. 14, the Caldor Fire has charred nearly 208,000 acres and is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">23% contained\u003c/a>. The blaze has destroyed almost 600 residences and continues to threaten more than 32,000 homes and other structures. Amazingly, only five injuries — three firefighters and two civilians — have been reported so far, with no fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 9 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After another long night of working to protect structures in the southern Tahoe basin from the sprawling Caldor Fire, firefighters face a challenging day again Wednesday as gusty winds and extremely dry conditions persist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews dodged a bit of a bullet Tuesday as southwesterly winds didn't blow as hard as forecast, instead pushing the fire northeast — further into the Carson Range toward Nevada — instead of north toward South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We lucked out yesterday with some of the winds that didn't come up quite as hard as we expected,\" said Cal Fire Section Chief Tim Ernst in a Wednesday morning briefing. \"We're fortunate the fire did not make as strong a push into Tahoe as it did the previous day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernst said a thick layer of smoke that came in around midnight \"put a damper on things and slowed a lot of growth,\" giving crews opportunities to make some progress, despite very low humidity and warm temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got some great dozer line to protect structures here,\" Ernst said of efforts to keep the dangerous easternmost tongue of the fire from spreading into nearby communities, including South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is now burning just a few miles southwest of the Heavenly Mountain Resort, which on Tuesday began activating snowmaking equipment in an effort to slow the fire should it reach the area.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432856342213976067"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Fire crews Wednesday will also continue on protecting the Kirkwood area south of the Tahoe basin along Highway 88.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of our major concerns was the Kirkwood bowl area where the Kirkwood ski area is. The fire is currently hung up right on the ridge outside Kirkwood, so that's something we'll be looking at today as one of our priorities,\" Ernst said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to the active fire area further west of Kirkwood along Highway 88, Ernst said fire crews are continuing to work on buttoning it up and keeping it from spreading further south across the highway — but he said the area \"won't show containment for a while.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overnight, the fire also moved quickly up Wrights Lake Road, above Highway 50, spreading north toward a group of nearby cabins and Desolation Wilderness beyond that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This continues to be probably one of the biggest challenges of this last shift,\" said Ernst, adding that crews were putting in contingency lines and doing structure defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a positive note, Ernst said things were \"looking real good\" in most of the southern and southwestern sections of the fire, where firefighters had made steady containment gains, including the area along Sly Park Road, south of Pollock Pines. Crews, though, were still fighting hard to clean up and secure one small area near Grizzly Flats, close to where the fire began more than two weeks — and where a bulldozer went up in flames yesterday. \"We expect to probably see another 36 to 48 hours before we show full containment here,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The entire fire is still in a red flag warning,\" warned Cal Fire incident meteorologist Jim Dudley Wednesday morning. \"The wind regime you saw yesterday will continue today. The speeds may be a little bit less than [Tuesday] ... but we'll still have swirling gusty winds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The red flag warning is set to expire at 11 p.m. Wednesday — but fire behavior analyst Stephen Vollmer warned that extreme fire behavior is likely to continue for at least another week, and indicated that officials fully expect the fire to cross the California-Nevada state line. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1432853046065709058\">Mandatory evacuation orders have already been issued\u003c/a> for several communities just across the state line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In El Dorado County alone, more than 53,000 residents are currently under \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Cal_OES/status/1433093655095496709\">mandatory evacuation orders\u003c/a>, with no timeline yet in place for repopulating those areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've talked about fire-weakened timber falling across roads, across escape routes. ... We've talked about long-distance spotting and high probability of ignition with extremely dry fuels,\" Vollmer said Wednesday morning. \"All those things are still in play today. And they're still going to be in play for the next week or so until we get a severe change in the weather.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1433088467664211980"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 10 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sprawling army of firefighters worked furiously Tuesday to protect communities in and around the South Lake Tahoe area, as fierce alpine gusts continued fanning the flames of the fast-growing Caldor Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 4,000 personnel kept fighting the ferocious blaze from all directions in an all-out scramble not so much to extinguish the flames, but merely to keep them from destroying houses and other structures.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We’ve got to get through tonight and tomorrow. Things look better come Thursday.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Jim Dudley, incident meteorologist","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"We can’t control it. We don’t have any tools out there to stop the fire,\" Erich Schwab, a Cal Fire operations section chief, told reporters during a Tuesday evening briefing, noting the exceptionally windy, dry conditions — expected to continue through Wednesday — that have stymied control efforts. \"So we resort to herding the fire away from structures and away from people, so that’s what we’re actively doing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That strategy has so far proved successful in protecting most buildings in the densely populated Tahoe basin and in many of the communities along the Highway 50 corridor heading up to Echo Summit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the fire had already reached into Meyers Tuesday, the flames had yet to extend into neighboring South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwab said crews were also still actively fighting the blaze in pockets of \"unburned islands\" along Highway 50 near Twin Bridges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are literally fire engines from here all the way down into Tahoe,\" he said. \"I did see some damage to structures. The fire burned through there extremely fast, extremely hot. And we did the best that we could. And we’re still in there.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432902756117909507"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Since sparking more than two weeks ago, the blaze has charred nearly 200,000 acres and destroyed nearly 500 homes, along with some 100 other structures, while continuing to threaten more than 33,000 more, officials said. It is now 18% contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwab also said crews had kept the head of the fire — which jumped Highway 89 Monday night — from reaching the Heavenly Mountain Resort area, and were now putting in bulldozer lines and waiting for fire activity to \"settle down\" before beginning their attack. That growth prompted a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1432853046065709058\">mandatory evacuation order\u003c/a> for several communities just across the state line in Nevada — adding to the many thousands of people who have been forced to flee their homes in areas throughout the region, including the nearly 22,000 South Lake residents ordered to leave on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIREAEU/status/1432862340060381189\">new evacuation order\u003c/a> was also issued late Tuesday for a small section of Alpine County along Highway 88, near Kirkwood, where the fire gained ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[We'll] go back in and get it when the fire behaves and calms down on us,\" Schwab said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze, which on Monday jumped Highway 88, had not yet reached Kirkwood, he said, but a structure defense operation with 20 engines had been established there in preparation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire on Tuesday also jumped the control line on Wrights Lake Road, Schwab added, and was making a run east toward Wrights Lake and Desolation Wilderness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The undesirable trio of strong winds, low humidity and high temperatures continues to make the probability of ignition incredibly high, explained Cal Fire’s Stephen Vollmer, a fire behavior analyst. Those conditions enable active crown runs, where the fire jumps from treetop to treetop, sometimes casting embers more than a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So that's what's propagating the spread of the fire right now,\" he said. \"Those embers are landing in the very old, very dense fuels that are out there in the fire environment ... in an area that has not seen fire history all the way back before 1940.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A red flag warning will remain in place for the region through Wednesday night, amid ongoing windy gusts and low humidity, incident meteorologist Jim Dudley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think today is the worst of the weather days,\" he said. \"Tomorrow’s going to be another bad weather day — I’ll be honest with you — but it’ll be the last one of those.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dudley said winds were expected to weaken considerably by Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And that’s gonna make for a much better situation here on the fire footprint,\" he said. \"So keep that in mind. We’ve got to get through tonight and tomorrow. Things look better come Thursday.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although most of the southern and southwestern edges of the fire are now contained, officials said there is no timeline to repopulate most of those areas still under mandatory evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody is making every effort to get you back in your homes,\" said Sgt. Eric Palmberg with the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office. \"When these people determine it is safe to get back into our homes, we will put that information out and we will get you back in there as soon as we can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 4 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An army of firefighters faced an increasingly challenging fight against the Caldor Fire overnight, as the blaze's eastern flank continued to burn downslope from near Echo Summit into the Tahoe basin, with the fire establishing itself on both sides of Highway 89 south of Meyers — the third major roadway it has now jumped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushed by strong winds, flames on the eastern side of Highway 89 have now begun burning into the mountains on the other side of the valley, south of South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432715647763550217"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\"We saw spotting distances of a half mile to a mile yesterday. The spots went all the way to the other side of the 89 and are working their way back up,\" said Tim Ernst, Cal Fire section chief, in a morning briefing Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews in the Christmas Valley area, near Meyers, worked overnight to protect homes on the west side of 89, as the fire backed down the slope behind them. Amazingly, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BrandonRittiman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1432811274845376513%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fww2.kqed.org%2Fnews%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D11886590action%3Deditclassic-editor\">there did not appear to be any significant structure loss in the neighborhoods that the flames had reached into\u003c/a>, according to ABC10 reporter Brandon Rittiman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just want to show you how close the Caldor Fire came to getting some of these structures. You can see the blackened forest just right up into the backyards,\" Rittiman said in a Twitter video posted on Tuesday afternoon, which he filmed near the intersection of Highway 89 and Santa Claus Drive. \"I don't see any structures lost down here, which is just incredible given the way-big flame lengths that we were seeing last night.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, \"This took a lot of work from fire crews.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432811274845376513"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>And in similarly positive news, a Cal Fire firefighter told KQED's Beth LaBerge that all structures at the Sierra at Tahoe ski resort — where the blaze had run through on Sunday night — were saved except for one vehicle maintenance building.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432807453343633409"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Firefighters are likely to face even more challenging conditions and very dangerous rates of fire spread Tuesday, as winds are expected to pick up significantly and a red flag warning remains in effect until 11 p.m. Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have even more flow coming across the fire to cause more turbulent winds, [with] gusts to 45 mph, maybe 50 mph depending on where you are,\" said incident meteorologist Jim Dudley on Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stronger winds will be more pronounced at higher elevations, he said, with the general wind direction pushing the fire toward South Lake Tahoe to the northeast and further into the mountains to the east. But crews will likely have to contend with more chaotic winds on the valley floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can't emphasize [enough] the wind issues we're going to have up top,\" Dudley said. \"That wind is going to channel through the canyons and drainages up there. The overall direction is going to want to take it off to the northeast and east, but when you're down on the terrain it's going to be all over the place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'This fire is going to stand up and rip. Under no circumstances get in front of the head of this fire.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Jeff Ike, Cal Fire incident commander","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Those winds mean the Caldor Fire will likely continue to grow at dangerous rates of spread — with crown fires torching large trees and throwing embers for long distances, especially in drainages that align with the southwesterly wind direction, said Stephen Vollmer, Cal Fire fire behavior analyst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every day when those trees torch out we've got that long distance spotting. Today is not going to be any different,\" Vollmer said Tuesday morning. \"We're going to see rates of spread go up to about 200 feet per minute, and the spotting distances go over a mile.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Extremely dry conditions also mean extremely high rates of ignition for spot fires created by those embers. \"Ignition is about 90%,\" Vollmer said. \"But it probably should be about 150%.\" Vollmer said long-distance spotting would likely continue for the next two days due to forecast winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This fire is going to stand up and rip,\" said Cal Fire incident commander Jeff Ike on Tuesday morning, emphasizing the danger for fire crews and advising them to stay out of the fire's direct path. \"Under no circumstances get in front of the head of this fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thick smoke prevented air firefighting operations periodically last week. But since then, nearly two dozen helicopters and three air tankers dumped thousands of gallons of water and retardant on the fire, fire spokesperson Dominic Polito said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of South Lake Tahoe, usually bustling with summer tourists, was eerily empty Tuesday morning, the air thick with smoke from the approaching blaze. On Monday, thousands of residents jammed Highway 50 heading toward Nevada — one of the only exit routes — after being ordered by authorities to leave.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432760035143081984"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>City officials said only a handful defied the order. But nearly everyone worried Tuesday about what the fire would do next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just kind of sucks waiting. I mean, I know it’s close down that way,” said Russ Crupi, gesturing south from his home in the Heavenly Valley Estates mobile home park, which he and his wife manage. He had arranged sprinklers and tractors around the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m worried about what’ll be here when people come back. People want to come back to their houses and that’s what I’m going to try to do,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432768289629884416"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>José Mora, 37, a construction worker from South Lake Tahoe, waited until yesterday's evacuation order to leave town, jumping in his car with just a bag of clothes. He moved here as a young child from his native Jalisco, Mexico, where many of South Lake's Latino residents come from. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/southlaketahoecitycalifornia\">Latino community here, which has grown markedly in recent years\u003c/a>, now accounts for more than 30% of the city's population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mora, who on Tuesday was sheltering at the Carson City Community Center, said if the area is hit hard by the fire, he'll likely have to relocate in search of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it burns, it's going to be hard, a lot of years to recover, and it's not going to be the same,\" he said. \"It's going to take years to be where we're at right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Tuesday morning, the Caldor Fire had burned over 191,607 acres, destroyed at least 669 structures, and was 16% contained. Just five injuries have so far been reported since the start of the blaze more than two weeks ago.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432686814553378822"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 6 p.m. Monday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews continued battling the Caldor Fire's advancing eastern perimeter along the Highway 50 corridor near Echo Summit on Monday afternoon, after officials put the entirety of South Lake Tahoe under a mandatory evacuation order late Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a rough long day for the troops up there today. But they have been decently successful,” said Cody Bogan, a Cal Fire operations section chief, during an evening briefing. “Luckily the fuel’s kind of run out and it kind of slowed the fire progression down, up on that north piece.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432512413576749059"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The fire was casting embers up to half a mile earlier Monday, according to fire officials, causing spot fires to ignite downslope into the Tahoe basin. The blaze, which has now charred more than 186,500 acres and is only 15% contained, continues to pose a serious threat to the basin amid a red flag warning due to higher winds and exceptionally dry conditions. That \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSSacramento/status/1432410570955706376?s=20\">warning has been extended until 11 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearer air in the area allowed some aircraft to provide much-needed support from above on Monday, Bogan said, with firefighters on the ground continuing to chase spot fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further south, along the fire's southeastern flank, crews were unable to keep the blaze from jumping Highway 88 for the first time, into Amador County. The fire jumped the highway approximately two miles west of Kirkwood, and was pushing eastward toward the resort area. Kirkwood was placed under mandatory evacuation orders on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Highway 88 corridor got hit pretty hard today,” Bogan said, noting that bulldozers were digging line to try to cut it off and “get it tamed back” onto the north side of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among Monday's positive developments: Firefighters have been successful in protecting the town of Strawberry, which just days earlier was under imminent threat, Bogan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything through Strawberry’s looking a lot better now. They’re continuing to mop up around structures and trying to secure things,” he said of the community that lies along Highway 50 on the western side of the pass, east of Twin Bridges. “As of right now, there’s been no structure loss in the Strawberry area that we are aware of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bogan also called it “a very successful day” in the southwestern sections of the fire, near where it first ignited two weeks ago, with crews making steady containment gains. That progress prompted officials late Monday to downgrade evacuation orders to warnings in several nearby areas close to Omo Ranch Road, near the Amador/El Dorado County line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conditions, he added, were also “looking real good” heading northeast toward the Pollock Pines area, with “no real issues at all to report,” although evacuation orders there remained in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 3 p.m. Monday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 22,000 South Lake Tahoe residents were ordered to evacuate late Monday morning as the Caldor Fire continued its rapid advance eastward, crossing Echo Summit and threatening to extend further into the Tahoe basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's something that's always in the back of your mind that you hope never happens,\" said South Lake Mayor Pro Tem Devin Middlebrook, who evacuated late Sunday night. \"But here we are today, with this threat to our community. And it's something that we, as a city and as a community, have been preparing for, and hopefully that preparation pays off.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432427762271145987"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>By early Monday afternoon, vehicles packed to the brim with bikes, camping gear and other personal belongings — some even towing boats — were backed up for miles in the thick, brown air along eastbound Highway 50 heading toward Nevada, the main evacuation route, as residents anxiously waited to escape the smoke-choked basin. One man broke out his violin and played a mournful melody as he ambled along the vast line of motionless cars.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432431380588228608"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\"This is a systematic evacuation, one neighborhood at a time,\" South Lake Tahoe police Lt. Travis Cabral said on social media. \"I am asking you as our community to please remain calm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An evacuation order is defined as an immediate threat to life. \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/14L8o2P-uvwSK_gyLCnhFRTon7nzLUNo2t98HjP30uAY/edit\">Evacuation shelters\u003c/a> are located at Truckee Veterans Hall and the Douglas County Community and Senior Center in Gardnerville, Nevada.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432405511014522886"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The orders come as the eastern edge of the Caldor Fire continues its rapid advance. On Sunday night, the blaze extended 8 1/2 miles up to the border of the Tahoe basin, incinerating cabins and other structures in the forest along Highway 50 between Twin Bridges and Echo Summit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Monday morning, the blaze had grown to more than 177,000 acres — a run of more than 20,000 acres over just one day — leaping over hard-fought containment lines cut with bulldozers, as crews battled the flames on multiple sides. The fire remained only 14% contained, down from 19% containment earlier this weekend, after rapid growth on the northeast and southern edges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By midday Monday, the fire had breached several points along the ridge and begun its descent into the basin, reaching spots around Lower Echo Lake and parts of Desolation Wilderness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So there's fire in the basin,\" Cal Fire Chief Thom Porter reported solemnly at a Monday afternoon briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Caldor is a real tough one for us,\" he said, noting the steep challenges firefighters face controlling the northeastern edge's side of the massive blaze, which continues to churn through rugged, difficult-to-reach terrain. \"It's been burning in heavy timber, just very, very difficult conditions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter said last week's inversion layer in the atmosphere, which helped keep a lid on the fire, disappeared yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the air clears, it's like taking the lid off of your pot of boiling water — all of a sudden there's that plume of heat and steam that comes out. Same thing happens on a fire,\" he said. \"Also sucks in oxygen from all directions, puts fire and spot fires in all directions. That's what happened yesterday.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials are still assessing last night’s damage in the El Dorado County communities the fire swept through, including the Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort, where snowmaking equipment had been activated in the hopes of gaining some protection from the blaze. More than 600 structures have already been destroyed, and at least 20,000 more were threatened.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432296909645832192"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Weather conditions were expected to worsen throughout the day, with strong wind gusts and low humidity raising concerns of erratic fire behavior and prompting the National Weather Service to issue a \u003ca href=\"https://www.weather.gov/sto/\">red flag warning\u003c/a> extending through Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter underscored the unprecedented ferocity of California fires this season , which is still just in its early stages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We haven't had fires burn from one side of the Sierras to the other. [But] we did with the Dixie, now we have with the Caldor. Two times in our history, and they're both happening this month,\" he said, urging residents to be prepared and evacuate as early as possible. \"We need to be really cognizant that there is fire activity happening in California that we have never seen before.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432306480854667265"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 10 p.m. Sunday\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nEvacuation orders and warnings hit South Lake Tahoe and additional areas in the Tahoe basin on Sunday night after a challenging weekend for crews battling the massive Caldor Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation orders in El Dorado County were extended to include the community of Meyers and communities south of Meyers along Highway 89 to the Alpine County line. An evacuation warning is now in effect for the remainder of El Dorado County in the Tahoe basin, including all of South Lake Tahoe and communities along the southern shores of the lake north to the Placer County line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional evacuation orders in Alpine County included the Kirkwood Mountain Resort and Caples Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Lake Tahoe's main medical facility, Barton Memorial Hospital, proactively evacuated 36 patients needing skilled nursing and 16 in acute care beds Sunday, sending them to regional facilities far from the fire, public information officer Mindi Befu said. The rest of the hospital was evacuating following Monday's expanded orders.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432201690569076738"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Fire officials sounded resigned in a community meeting Sunday evening, as new evacuation orders were issued across El Dorado and Alpine counties in the wake of \"extreme rates\" of fire spread, said Eric Schwab, Cal Fire's operation section chief.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Today's been the hottest, driest day so far on the fire.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Jim Dudley, Cal Fire incident meteorologist","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">evacuation orders\u003c/a> include Meyers, just 7 miles south of South Lake Tahoe, which itself was issued an evacuation warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A couple days ago I really felt we were turning the corner with it,\" Schwab told the community. But without adequate staffing and with changing weather conditions, firefighters found themselves playing defense over the weekend, fire officials said — not so much stopping the spread, as working to save structures from the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwab said that in the last two weeks, the Caldor Fire's perimeter had advanced less than a half mile, but on Sunday the perimeter \"moved about 2 1/2 miles on us with no sign it's slowing down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In those conditions, Schwab said, fire crews moved to their No. 1 priority: evacuating people and preserving life. Much of their defense of structures was around Highway 50 and the Kirkwood Mountain Resort, with 25 strike teams of engines, 25 bulldozers and 25 hand crews set to defend nearby structures Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the wind blows like this, our primary modes are one — hold onto what we have,\" Schwab said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A favorable turn in weather Saturday afternoon allowed firefighters to make progress and increase containment of the fire to 19%, up from 12% the day before, said Capt. Stephen Horner, a Cal Fire spokesperson for the Caldor Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sunday's effort was far more of a struggle, with crews having to carry hoses by hand through rough terrain. Triple-digit weather also lies ahead through Tuesday, leaving little optimism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s been a rough day and there’s no bones about it,\" said Jeff Marsolais, forest supervisor for Eldorado National Forest. A few days ago, he thought crews could halt the Caldor Fire's eastern progress, but “today it let loose.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1432142906119364608"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\"Eleven days ago we had 240 people, and that was it to try to work and contain this fire,\" said Keith Wade, a Cal Fire captain and public information officer. \"Now we're upwards of 3,500 personnel. … That means more help. And that means more containment lines getting down on the ground.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 7 p.m. Saturday\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Cal Fire has ordered evacuations across portions of El Dorado County, including near Echo Summit. Cal Fire also asked other communities near Echo Summit — like Christmas Valley near Highway 89 — to prepare for that possibility. Check Cal Fire's incident page for \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/\">a full list of evacuation orders\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massive blaze has raged across a vast expanse of steep, mountainous terrain southwest of Lake Tahoe and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/21/map-caldor-fire-structure-damage/\">destroyed more than 470 structures\u003c/a> since igniting on Aug. 14, even as the fire continued to advance northeast toward the much more populated Tahoe basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some low humidity on Saturday afternoon increased fire activity, according to Cal Fire, with erratic winds casting embers up to half a mile from the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today's been the hottest, driest day so far on the fire,\" said Jim Dudley, Cal Fire incident meteorologist, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CALFIREAEU/videos/1202995556829423\">a Saturday evening community meeting\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday night and Monday, wind will increase, Dudley said, prompting officials to call a red flag warning for the northern Sierra and the southern Cascades, which takes effect 11 a.m. Monday through Tuesday evening. Those conditions may mean more \"rapid spread of fire,\" according to the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSSacramento/status/1431739221140668419\">National Weather Service\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials said they'll expect to see increased fire activity Sunday and Monday morning, since an inversion layer of air is expected to bottle up smoky air in the area and release it those mornings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visibility improved enough near Saturday evening to allow Cal Fire to bring in more air support, said Cal Fire Section Chief Cody Bogan.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1430676198099591169"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: Updated 8 p.m. Friday\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAs of Friday morning, much of the southwestern and western flanks of the sprawling Caldor Fire, along with its southern perimeter, had been largely contained, with no major growth reported, fire officials said. Cal Fire Operations Section Chief Erich Schwab echoed that sentiment about the southwestern portion of the blaze in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CALFIREAEU/videos/143879924593222/?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZVbYUAtW09muDQHgYMvpoOyg-iiNyt8bTlt0XzI13BuilkJLhDjyrQKPKO04xSFaV9sVB2nIG0ag7n0AsAhJdWIZBQFHGjeqPyTJ_4jZYn68ZoyESqivZv3xdf_JqBckwAkIz7rnQRLgZPxjwiGgIjZV8UilVZdXIEd9md-x3R9Bw&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\">evening briefing\u003c/a>, saying fire officials were \"finally comfortable and confident that that's not going to move any further.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwab said technical burning operations on the northwestern edge of the fire — the portion closest to Placerville — resulted in some minor spot fires, which were difficult to fight in extremely limited visibility due to smoke. \"We hope to get it boxed in,\" Schwab said, as a daylong smoke inversion had lifted and allowed an air attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most active and dangerous portions of the Caldor Fire remain the eastern and northeastern sections currently burning toward the Lake Tahoe basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most problematic flank of the blaze — the northeastern section, which has jumped Highway 50 between Kyburz and Strawberry — \"got very active [Thursday] and jumped over our proposed control line and ran about 800 acres ... burning up to the 7,500 elevation line,\" Schwab said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fuels are extremely critical up there,\" he added. \"Fuels that normally wouldn't be available to burn actively are burning with extreme conditions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That portion of the fire has also \"completely torched\" much of the area along Highway 50 between Kyburz and Strawberry, hurling fallen trees and other debris onto the roadway, said Cal Fire Section Chief Tim Ernst earlier on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This road is extremely treacherous right now,\" Ernst added, while noting that firefighters have so far been able to protect all the structures in the area.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1431383703238819843"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, Schwab sounded a note of optimism Friday evening regarding the blaze's eastern section south of Highway 50, calling it a \"success story for today.\" Crews were able to establish multiple bulldozer containment lines east of where the fire is burning — that is, between the fire and the Tahoe basin — and Schwab was hopeful that planned overnight backfire operations would succeed in halting the blaze's eastern progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Answering a question about the likelihood of the blaze reaching the Tahoe basin, Schwab said, \"We're doing everything that we can to ensure that it doesn't. ... That's why [the eastern branch of the fire south of Highway 50] is such a critical priority for us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for winds that could significantly drive the fire, Cal Fire incident meteorologist Jim Dudley said Friday evening that relatively light winds are forecast for the weekend, but that the situation could change Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You'll probably be hearing terms like 'possibly a red flag might be coming out this weekend for strong winds for Monday,'\" said Cal Fire incident met\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Monica Lam contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11886590/despite-containment-gains-caldor-fire-continues-march-toward-tahoe-basin","authors":["1263","182","11526","11626","11690","11746","11708"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_29668","news_21894","news_6383","news_29842","news_18538","news_20341","news_27626","news_787"],"featImg":"news_11887701","label":"news"},"news_11887158":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11887158","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11887158","score":null,"sort":[1630602936000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"in-california-restoring-our-relationship-with-fire-is-possible","title":"In California, Restoring Our Relationship With Fire Is Possible","publishDate":1630602936,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The Bay | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":28779,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Devastating. Catastrophic. Deadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These words are often used to describe wildfires in our state. As we’ve seen in the last five years, wildfires and the toxic smoke that comes with them have impacted all Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether it's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834305/masks-for-smoke-and-covid-19-what-kind-is-best\">grabbing an N95 mask on smoky days\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833686/what-to-pack-in-your-emergency-bag-with-covid-19-in-mind\">preparing an emergency go bag\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834901/fire-evacuation-what-actually-happens-and-how-can-you-plan\">evacuating your home\u003c/a> as a fire encroaches upon your town, communities across the state are now dealing with more aggressive fire seasons. But if fire — and all that comes in its wake — is an inevitable aspect of life here, how do we live \u003cem>with\u003c/em> it? And could we change our relationship to fire?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/dventon\">KQED Science’s Danielle Venton\u003c/a> has reported on fire and our changing climate for six years. She's witnessed firsthand how we've come to think and talk about the role major fire phenomena have on our lives. Shifting our conversations, and even the metrics for measuring a fire's impact, could help us craft multipronged solutions. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885698/how-to-think-about-fire-in-a-different-way\">She spoke with Devin Katayama of The Bay\u003c/a> to discuss why the dominant fire narrative must change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC3762305706&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3AZNKFy\">Read the episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why are California's wildfires so destructive now?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Prepare for a Possible Evacuation' tag='prepare-evacuation']In 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CALFIRE/posts/10159468556157390\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fires \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CALFIRE/posts/10159468556157390\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">already\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CALFIRE/posts/10159468556157390\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> have burned through more acres than during last year’s record-breaking season\u003c/a> compared to this time last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the first maybe two or three years, it kind of felt like a fluke,” Venton said. “[Now] it feels inevitable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A century of fire suppression, \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2020/09/16/the-racist-removal-of-native-americans-in-california-is-often-missing-from-wildfire-discussions-experts-say/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the forced removal of California’s Indigenous people\u003c/a> from their land, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.summitdaily.com/news/playing-with-fire-how-a-history-of-mining-suppression-and-climate-change-has-fueled-a-new-generation-of-wildfires/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extractive industries\u003c/a> combined with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1962273/megadrought-conditions-not-seen-for-400-years-have-returned-to-the-west-scientists-say\">climate change-fueled megadroughts\u003c/a> have produced a uniquely combustible scenario that makes fires in the West more unpredictable than in previous decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to do some big rethinking about the state's relationship with fires,” Venton said. “We might talk about being at war with fire, or we saw big dramatic headlines like ‘The West Is Burning,’ and that really indicates to me that we haven't gotten over the idea that all fire is bad and that Western forests are not supposed to burn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As fires have grown more destructive, engulfing entire towns and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873396/i-cant-abandon-this-community-months-after-czu-fires-survivors-struggle-to-rebuild\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">displacing thousands of Californians\u003c/a>, scientists and ecologists are placing renewed attention on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1973196/the-karuk-used-fire-to-manage-the-forest-for-centuries-now-they-want-to-do-that-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prescribed burns, a centuries-old practice\u003c/a> that Indigenous tribes like the Klamath’s Karuk used for stewarding their land. The practice involves setting controlled fires, or \"good fire,\" to burn through dry debris in the understory of forests, which, if left dry and unmanaged, becomes the perfect fuel for a blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial/video/6997511512524901638\" data-video-id=\"6997511512524901638\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@kqedofficial\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@kqedofficial\u003c/a>We break down how CA’s fire season got so bad. \u003ca title=\"california\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">##california\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"californiafire\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/californiafire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">##californiafire\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"wildfire2021\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/wildfire2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">##wildfire2021\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"dixiefire\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/dixiefire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">##dixiefire\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"climatechange\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/climatechange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">##climatechange\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"droughtlife\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/droughtlife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">##droughtlife\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"localnews\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/localnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">##localnews\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"firetok\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/firetok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">##firetok\u003c/a>\u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - kqed\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-6997511357541190406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound - kqed\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How do you measure the impact of fire?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Not all fires are bad. But fire coverage and reporting often frame an incident as a disaster that must be contained, redirected or stopped. Californians are often used to understanding the magnitude of a developing disaster by dividing the incident into digestible pieces, like how many acres it’s burned, or how contained it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Venton says that fire’s impact can’t just be measured by acres and area contained. “If the fire is burning in a healthy way, in a place where it's doing ecological good, a fire could be 15% contained. And that doesn't tell you that it's catastrophic necessarily,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she argues that we should reassess and reprioritize metrics for measuring a fire’s impact. “How many people are being evacuated? Is it threatening towns?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it burning in a way that is out of control and ... how many firefighters are involved in the firefight? When did they last have a break?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887361\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11887361 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/071_CaldorFire_08312021.jpg\" alt=\"Ash remains of a structure and a stone fireplace surrounded by dozens of charred trees.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/071_CaldorFire_08312021.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/071_CaldorFire_08312021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/071_CaldorFire_08312021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/071_CaldorFire_08312021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/071_CaldorFire_08312021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A burned structure off Highway 50 near Phillips, California, on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, after the Caldor Fire spread through the area that Monday evening. Until recently, federal firefighters — also known as \"forestry technicians\" — were paid about $13 an hour. A new plan under President Biden would increase that amount to $15 an hour. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Who really fights fires?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Calling people heroes is not productive, Venton said. Instead, she urges us to think about who is doing this work and how they're compensated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until recently, federal firefighters — also known as \"forestry technicians\" — were paid about $13 an hour. \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-biden-expected-to-announce-pay-raises-for-federal-firefighters\">A new plan under President Biden would increase that amount to $15 an hour\u003c/a>, but \"most of the livable wage comes from overtime, meaning that people rely on it, meaning that they feel like it's never OK to say no to an assignment,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn't include the work of incarcerated firefighters who fight California's blazes. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11846622/whats-next-for-incarcerated-firefighters-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Incarcerated firefighters are paid $2 to $5 per day\u003c/a>, and they get an extra dollar per hour when they’re actively working at a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work itself is brutal, and many firefighters are working long hours in dangerous situations while disconnected from their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would much rather they be fairly paid and fairly treated professionals,\" Venton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second change she recommends is to treat the work of fire prevention with the same attention and value as fighting existing blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hero narrative feeds into this thing I see in our culture that I don't like,\" she explained. \"We value coming to the rescue more than preventing problems in the first place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right' citation='Danielle Venton, KQED Science Reporter']'We value coming to the rescue more than preventing problems in the first place.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How can you create community-based solutions?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"Fires are a human-caused problem, and that means that humans can be part of the solution,\" Venton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Through her reporting, Venton has met \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1973138/how-a-small-forest-community-saved-itself-from-fire\">neighbors who are taking fire prevention into their own hands\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Fresno County town of Shaver Lake, bordered in part by land owned by Southern California Edison, communities spent decades putting in fire breaks and setting prescribed burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this approach might seem long and fairly unglamorous, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1973159/how-to-save-a-california-town-from-wildfire-plentyy-of-advance-work-and-agency-cooperation\">their mitigation efforts helped interrupt the spread of the 2020 Creek Fire\u003c/a>, which ultimately saved their town from devastation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, regarded as heroes were the firefighters, rather than the foresters and land managers who spent a decade building fuel breaks and lighting “good fires” as part of their mitigation strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People who extinguish flames are called heroes. People who trim brush and light prescribed fires aren't thought of that way,\" Venton said earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/05/KQEDSCIENCE_CRKFR-1.gif\" alt=\"A gif shows how fuel breaks interrupted fire paths in the 2020 Creek Fire. The area with a previous prescribed burn is also indicated near the origin of the Creek Fire. Text reads: Forest treatments and fuel breaks helped interrupt the spread of the Creek Fire in the Shaver Lake area, Sept. 2020. \" width=\"400\" height=\"709\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Venton also points out that wildfires are a multifaceted and constantly evolving problem. One solution does not fit all. The solutions themselves are constantly evolving as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her reporting, she says attention often falls on where mitigation attempts to prevent catastrophic fires have failed. \"Of course, some fires are not going to respond to a firebreak,\" she explained. \"That doesn't mean it's not worth it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points to an analogy of seatbelts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1950s, cars were incredibly dangerous and accidents could result in serious injury or death. But after iterations of new safety strategies, cars are now manufactured to include seatbelts, \"crumple zones,\" and airbags. That shift came about after years of experimenting and testing multiple solutions. The same goes for future wildfire prevention, which could involve variations of mitigation strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>If not all fires are bad, what about wildfire smoke?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Wildfire smoke is likely the No. 1 way Californians will feel the effects of fires and really the effects of climate change,” Venton said. “Smoke is really its own natural disaster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2018 Camp Fire in Butte County nearly obliterated the town of Paradise, killing 106 people and displacing thousands. On top of that devastation, researchers estimated that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1971666/california-wildfires-killed-106-people-two-years-ago-researchers-say-the-smoke-killed-3652\">the smoke of that fire killed an additional 3,600 people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s 30 times more than a heart attack or respiratory illness,\" Venton added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Venton says a major solution to mitigating hazardous levels of wildfire smoke would involve dramatically scaling up the amount of controlled and prescribed fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A little bit of smoke we should not worry about,\" she explained. \"It's the really heavy, toxic smoke when homes and cars [burn] — and that's the really bad smoke.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venton urges us to reconsider the notion that blue skies mean ecological balance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Tripp, a member of the Karuk Tribe and an advocate for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1976240/californias-forests-are-at-a-turning-point-why-arent-we-committing-to-good-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a return to prescribed burns\u003c/a>, told Venton that California's skies have always been hazy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The historical records show that the forest looked like a well-pruned orchard with a constant haze of smoke in the air,\" he said. \"That haze, constant haze is part of that natural background. And that's what people don't understand.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But identifying ways to protect people from the hazardous smoke emitted from megafires is a necessary part of our fire conversation now. Researchers and journalists are just now measuring the full impacts smoke has on communities. For her part, Venton urges that questions like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1976551/how-to-get-or-make-a-free-low-cost-air-purifier-for-your-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how to access affordable air purifiers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1969271/making-sense-of-purple-air-vs-airnow-and-a-new-map-to-rule-them-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reliable information on air quality\u003c/a> be part of these conversations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How can we live \u003cem>with\u003c/em> fire?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Preparing An Emergency Bag' tag='emergency-bag']\"I want us to have a better relationship with fire in this state so that this state continues to be habitable and a wonderful place to live,\" Venton said\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our ecosystems would be healthier, our lungs would be healthier. Our communities would not have to live in so much fear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she admits California has a long way to go, she believes that a future with a restored relationship with fire is possible. It requires investment and a conversation toward solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I can do anything to try to help the conversation towards those\u003cbr>\nsolutions, that's what I want to do,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode was edited and mixed by \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realchrisjbeale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christopher Beale\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/amontecillo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alan Montecillo\u003c/a> and hosted by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/dkatayama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Devin Katayama\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Follow \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Bay\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> to hear more local Bay Area stories like this one. New episodes are released Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a.m. Find The Bay on \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Apple Podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Spotify\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Stitcher\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, and NPR One or via \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/KQED-The-Bay-Flash-Briefing/dp/B07H6YYV23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Alexa\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"If fire — and all that comes in its wake — is an inevitable aspect of life in our state, how do we live with it? 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Catastrophic. Deadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These words are often used to describe wildfires in our state. As we’ve seen in the last five years, wildfires and the toxic smoke that comes with them have impacted all Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether it's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834305/masks-for-smoke-and-covid-19-what-kind-is-best\">grabbing an N95 mask on smoky days\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833686/what-to-pack-in-your-emergency-bag-with-covid-19-in-mind\">preparing an emergency go bag\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834901/fire-evacuation-what-actually-happens-and-how-can-you-plan\">evacuating your home\u003c/a> as a fire encroaches upon your town, communities across the state are now dealing with more aggressive fire seasons. But if fire — and all that comes in its wake — is an inevitable aspect of life here, how do we live \u003cem>with\u003c/em> it? And could we change our relationship to fire?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/dventon\">KQED Science’s Danielle Venton\u003c/a> has reported on fire and our changing climate for six years. She's witnessed firsthand how we've come to think and talk about the role major fire phenomena have on our lives. Shifting our conversations, and even the metrics for measuring a fire's impact, could help us craft multipronged solutions. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885698/how-to-think-about-fire-in-a-different-way\">She spoke with Devin Katayama of The Bay\u003c/a> to discuss why the dominant fire narrative must change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC3762305706&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3AZNKFy\">Read the episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why are California's wildfires so destructive now?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Prepare for a Possible Evacuation ","tag":"prepare-evacuation"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CALFIRE/posts/10159468556157390\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fires \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CALFIRE/posts/10159468556157390\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">already\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CALFIRE/posts/10159468556157390\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> have burned through more acres than during last year’s record-breaking season\u003c/a> compared to this time last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the first maybe two or three years, it kind of felt like a fluke,” Venton said. “[Now] it feels inevitable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A century of fire suppression, \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2020/09/16/the-racist-removal-of-native-americans-in-california-is-often-missing-from-wildfire-discussions-experts-say/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the forced removal of California’s Indigenous people\u003c/a> from their land, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.summitdaily.com/news/playing-with-fire-how-a-history-of-mining-suppression-and-climate-change-has-fueled-a-new-generation-of-wildfires/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extractive industries\u003c/a> combined with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1962273/megadrought-conditions-not-seen-for-400-years-have-returned-to-the-west-scientists-say\">climate change-fueled megadroughts\u003c/a> have produced a uniquely combustible scenario that makes fires in the West more unpredictable than in previous decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to do some big rethinking about the state's relationship with fires,” Venton said. “We might talk about being at war with fire, or we saw big dramatic headlines like ‘The West Is Burning,’ and that really indicates to me that we haven't gotten over the idea that all fire is bad and that Western forests are not supposed to burn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As fires have grown more destructive, engulfing entire towns and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873396/i-cant-abandon-this-community-months-after-czu-fires-survivors-struggle-to-rebuild\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">displacing thousands of Californians\u003c/a>, scientists and ecologists are placing renewed attention on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1973196/the-karuk-used-fire-to-manage-the-forest-for-centuries-now-they-want-to-do-that-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prescribed burns, a centuries-old practice\u003c/a> that Indigenous tribes like the Klamath’s Karuk used for stewarding their land. The practice involves setting controlled fires, or \"good fire,\" to burn through dry debris in the understory of forests, which, if left dry and unmanaged, becomes the perfect fuel for a blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial/video/6997511512524901638\" data-video-id=\"6997511512524901638\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@kqedofficial\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@kqedofficial\u003c/a>We break down how CA’s fire season got so bad. \u003ca title=\"california\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">##california\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"californiafire\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/californiafire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">##californiafire\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"wildfire2021\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/wildfire2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">##wildfire2021\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"dixiefire\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/dixiefire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">##dixiefire\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"climatechange\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/climatechange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">##climatechange\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"droughtlife\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/droughtlife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">##droughtlife\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"localnews\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/localnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">##localnews\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"firetok\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/firetok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">##firetok\u003c/a>\u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - kqed\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-6997511357541190406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound - kqed\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"tiktok","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How do you measure the impact of fire?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Not all fires are bad. But fire coverage and reporting often frame an incident as a disaster that must be contained, redirected or stopped. Californians are often used to understanding the magnitude of a developing disaster by dividing the incident into digestible pieces, like how many acres it’s burned, or how contained it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Venton says that fire’s impact can’t just be measured by acres and area contained. “If the fire is burning in a healthy way, in a place where it's doing ecological good, a fire could be 15% contained. And that doesn't tell you that it's catastrophic necessarily,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she argues that we should reassess and reprioritize metrics for measuring a fire’s impact. “How many people are being evacuated? Is it threatening towns?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it burning in a way that is out of control and ... how many firefighters are involved in the firefight? When did they last have a break?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887361\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11887361 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/071_CaldorFire_08312021.jpg\" alt=\"Ash remains of a structure and a stone fireplace surrounded by dozens of charred trees.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/071_CaldorFire_08312021.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/071_CaldorFire_08312021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/071_CaldorFire_08312021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/071_CaldorFire_08312021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/071_CaldorFire_08312021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A burned structure off Highway 50 near Phillips, California, on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, after the Caldor Fire spread through the area that Monday evening. Until recently, federal firefighters — also known as \"forestry technicians\" — were paid about $13 an hour. A new plan under President Biden would increase that amount to $15 an hour. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Who really fights fires?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Calling people heroes is not productive, Venton said. Instead, she urges us to think about who is doing this work and how they're compensated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until recently, federal firefighters — also known as \"forestry technicians\" — were paid about $13 an hour. \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-biden-expected-to-announce-pay-raises-for-federal-firefighters\">A new plan under President Biden would increase that amount to $15 an hour\u003c/a>, but \"most of the livable wage comes from overtime, meaning that people rely on it, meaning that they feel like it's never OK to say no to an assignment,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn't include the work of incarcerated firefighters who fight California's blazes. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11846622/whats-next-for-incarcerated-firefighters-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Incarcerated firefighters are paid $2 to $5 per day\u003c/a>, and they get an extra dollar per hour when they’re actively working at a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work itself is brutal, and many firefighters are working long hours in dangerous situations while disconnected from their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would much rather they be fairly paid and fairly treated professionals,\" Venton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second change she recommends is to treat the work of fire prevention with the same attention and value as fighting existing blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hero narrative feeds into this thing I see in our culture that I don't like,\" she explained. \"We value coming to the rescue more than preventing problems in the first place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We value coming to the rescue more than preventing problems in the first place.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"large","align":"right","citation":"Danielle Venton, KQED Science Reporter","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How can you create community-based solutions?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"Fires are a human-caused problem, and that means that humans can be part of the solution,\" Venton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Through her reporting, Venton has met \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1973138/how-a-small-forest-community-saved-itself-from-fire\">neighbors who are taking fire prevention into their own hands\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Fresno County town of Shaver Lake, bordered in part by land owned by Southern California Edison, communities spent decades putting in fire breaks and setting prescribed burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this approach might seem long and fairly unglamorous, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1973159/how-to-save-a-california-town-from-wildfire-plentyy-of-advance-work-and-agency-cooperation\">their mitigation efforts helped interrupt the spread of the 2020 Creek Fire\u003c/a>, which ultimately saved their town from devastation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, regarded as heroes were the firefighters, rather than the foresters and land managers who spent a decade building fuel breaks and lighting “good fires” as part of their mitigation strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People who extinguish flames are called heroes. People who trim brush and light prescribed fires aren't thought of that way,\" Venton said earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/05/KQEDSCIENCE_CRKFR-1.gif\" alt=\"A gif shows how fuel breaks interrupted fire paths in the 2020 Creek Fire. The area with a previous prescribed burn is also indicated near the origin of the Creek Fire. Text reads: Forest treatments and fuel breaks helped interrupt the spread of the Creek Fire in the Shaver Lake area, Sept. 2020. \" width=\"400\" height=\"709\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Venton also points out that wildfires are a multifaceted and constantly evolving problem. One solution does not fit all. The solutions themselves are constantly evolving as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her reporting, she says attention often falls on where mitigation attempts to prevent catastrophic fires have failed. \"Of course, some fires are not going to respond to a firebreak,\" she explained. \"That doesn't mean it's not worth it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points to an analogy of seatbelts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1950s, cars were incredibly dangerous and accidents could result in serious injury or death. But after iterations of new safety strategies, cars are now manufactured to include seatbelts, \"crumple zones,\" and airbags. That shift came about after years of experimenting and testing multiple solutions. The same goes for future wildfire prevention, which could involve variations of mitigation strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>If not all fires are bad, what about wildfire smoke?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Wildfire smoke is likely the No. 1 way Californians will feel the effects of fires and really the effects of climate change,” Venton said. “Smoke is really its own natural disaster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2018 Camp Fire in Butte County nearly obliterated the town of Paradise, killing 106 people and displacing thousands. On top of that devastation, researchers estimated that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1971666/california-wildfires-killed-106-people-two-years-ago-researchers-say-the-smoke-killed-3652\">the smoke of that fire killed an additional 3,600 people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s 30 times more than a heart attack or respiratory illness,\" Venton added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Venton says a major solution to mitigating hazardous levels of wildfire smoke would involve dramatically scaling up the amount of controlled and prescribed fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A little bit of smoke we should not worry about,\" she explained. \"It's the really heavy, toxic smoke when homes and cars [burn] — and that's the really bad smoke.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venton urges us to reconsider the notion that blue skies mean ecological balance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Tripp, a member of the Karuk Tribe and an advocate for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1976240/californias-forests-are-at-a-turning-point-why-arent-we-committing-to-good-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a return to prescribed burns\u003c/a>, told Venton that California's skies have always been hazy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The historical records show that the forest looked like a well-pruned orchard with a constant haze of smoke in the air,\" he said. \"That haze, constant haze is part of that natural background. And that's what people don't understand.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But identifying ways to protect people from the hazardous smoke emitted from megafires is a necessary part of our fire conversation now. Researchers and journalists are just now measuring the full impacts smoke has on communities. For her part, Venton urges that questions like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1976551/how-to-get-or-make-a-free-low-cost-air-purifier-for-your-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how to access affordable air purifiers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1969271/making-sense-of-purple-air-vs-airnow-and-a-new-map-to-rule-them-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reliable information on air quality\u003c/a> be part of these conversations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How can we live \u003cem>with\u003c/em> fire?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Preparing An Emergency Bag ","tag":"emergency-bag"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"I want us to have a better relationship with fire in this state so that this state continues to be habitable and a wonderful place to live,\" Venton said\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our ecosystems would be healthier, our lungs would be healthier. Our communities would not have to live in so much fear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she admits California has a long way to go, she believes that a future with a restored relationship with fire is possible. It requires investment and a conversation toward solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I can do anything to try to help the conversation towards those\u003cbr>\nsolutions, that's what I want to do,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode was edited and mixed by \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realchrisjbeale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christopher Beale\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/amontecillo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alan Montecillo\u003c/a> and hosted by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/dkatayama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Devin Katayama\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Follow \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Bay\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> to hear more local Bay Area stories like this one. New episodes are released Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a.m. Find The Bay on \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Apple Podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Spotify\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Stitcher\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, and NPR One or via \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/KQED-The-Bay-Flash-Briefing/dp/B07H6YYV23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Alexa\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11887158/in-california-restoring-our-relationship-with-fire-is-possible","authors":["11357","11088","7240"],"programs":["news_28779"],"categories":["news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_29842","news_18538","news_29866","news_787","news_29867","news_19978","news_29838","news_3187","news_4337","news_29868"],"featImg":"news_11887295","label":"news_28779"},"news_11886288":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11886288","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11886288","score":null,"sort":[1630103411000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"capturing-whats-lost-and-found-1-year-after-czu-fires-swept-through-santa-cruz-mountains","title":"Capturing What's Lost and Found 1 Year After CZU Fires Swept Through Santa Cruz Mountains","publishDate":1630103411,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report Magazine | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":26731,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Just over a year ago, some 12,000 lightning strikes exploded across Northern California, igniting more than 585 wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Santa Cruz Mountains, scattered blazes grew into a massive burning organism — the CZU Lightning Complex fires — which eventually scorched some 86,000 acres and destroyed over 900 homes as well as burning through Big Basin Redwoods State Park, California’s first state park. One year later, the fire is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1974648/last-years-santa-cruz-lightning-fires-still-causing-trouble\">still burning\u003c/a> deep in some of the roots and stumps of ancient redwoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11873396 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48514_023_BoulderCreek_FireVictims_04092021-qut-1020x680.jpeg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the aftermath, storytelling duo \u003ca href=\"http://www.kitchensisters.org/\">The Kitchen Sisters\u003c/a> turned their microphones on the region, looking for what was lost and what has been found since lightning sparked the fires. 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