Caldor Fire Crews Establish Defensive Lines In Christmas Valley To Protect Meyers And South Lake Tahoe

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CHRISTMAS VALLEY (CBS13) — High winds Wednesday continued to propulsion the Caldor Fire done the Tahoe basin.

Cal Fire said crews made advancement connected containment lines but communities were inactive astatine risk. At this point, they said the champion signifier of onslaught is defense.

Fire crews maintained a backmost pain occurrence successful Christmas Valley disconnected of South Upper Truckee Road, with the volition that it volition pain backmost into the main occurrence and supply immoderate extortion for homes not lone successful Christmas Valley but Meyers and South Lake Tahoe.

So acold it’s been a palmy conflict successful Christmas Valley to bushed the occurrence back. No structures person been mislaid aft the caput of the occurrence burned through

But the combat is not implicit yet due to the fact that much occurrence is following.

“Today, we’re doing a backburn from Echo Summit down present to Meyers,” said Chris Burns, a Truckee hotshot.

Burns is 1 of the hotshots doing enactment successful Christmas Valley wherever the Caldor Fire splits. This is happening adjacent to homes close disconnected of South Upper Truckee Road.

Fire crews said they spell location by home, gait by gait clearing brushwood and digging lines to propulsion the occurrence away.

“Big picture: Eastern beforehand here, this eastbound portion that this moving through. Tahoe is inactive astatine hazard truthful radical are going to inactive stay evacuated. South extremity of this fire—Alpine County Douglas County Amador County—all 3 are astatine hazard still,” said Cal Fire spokesperson Keith Wade.

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The anticipation present is that amended upwind volition acceptable successful similar cooler temperatures and less upwind gusts. So the astir 4,000 unit moving connected this occurrence tin drawback a break.