The Caldor Fire has blazed nearly 200,000 acres of California as firefighters work to contain the state’s third-largest wildfire. Thousands of Lake Tahoe residents were ordered to evacuate Monday. Read more:
Cal Fire has assigned 82 crews totalling 3,784 personnel to help tackle the blaze, while 373 fire engines, 85 dozers and 76 water tenders are at the site of the large wildfire.
So far, 664 structures have been destroyed by the Caldor Fire, while 39 have been damaged by the blaze. Cal Fire confirmed on Monday that at least five people have been injured due to the wildfire.The fire is one of 13 blazes burning in California that have so far destroyed 1,460,782 acres of land, according to data from the National Interagency Fire Center.
At least 83 large wildfires that have destroyed more than 2.5 million acres are currently burning in the U.S. across 10 states after a heatwave and drought in early July caused blazes to break out across the West Coast. Officials have stressed that the devastating effects of wildfires in the past few years have been exacerbated by
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As Caldor fire closes in on Lake Tahoe, crews scramble to prevent worst-case scenarioA wildfire in South Lake Tahoe would not only threaten lives and homes; it would also move faster, burn hotter and be significantly harder to fight, experts say.
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Caldor Fire sweeps toward Lake Tahoe after mass evacuationCaldor Fire sweeps toward Lake Tahoe after mass evacuation as communities just across the state line in Nevada were warned to get ready to leave.
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