Firefighters Say Caldor Fire Next To Impossible To Get Under Control

KYBURZ (CBS13) — The Caldor Fire burning on Highway 50 betwixt the municipality of Kyburz and the municipality of strawberry. Evacuations person been ordered successful respective areas arsenic crews enactment to get a grip connected the blaze that is burning retired of control.

Cal Fire says trying to get a grip connected the occurrence is adjacent to impossible.

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“A small discouraging erstwhile we get occurrence behaviour similar this that we can’t control,” said Josh Vickers, with Cal Fire.

Vickers said 1 of the reasons for the struggles is beardown winds.

“What you’re feeling close present is 20-25 miles per hr and the fuels are truthful dry, it’s getting up into the timber. Fire got connected some sides of Highway 50,” helium said.

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— Laura Haefeli (@LauraHaefeli) August 27, 2021

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Vickers explained that embers flying crossed the roadway helped to spark a occurrence connected the different broadside of the highway.

“So we had occurrence chiefly connected the northbound broadside of Highway 50 and erstwhile the winds picked up, we had to unopen road 50 down,” helium said.

Rough terrain was besides an issue. Getting bulldozers into the country is adjacent to impossible, leaving a batch of the enactment to manus crews.

Vickers said aft the Angora Fire successful 2007, vegetation was removed on Highway 50 betwixt Kyburz and Strawberry to forestall large wildfires.

“It did help, but the occurrence behaviour and the fuels are truthful adust close now, it inactive has plentifulness of fuels to burn,” helium said.

The fashionable summertime roadway successful Northern California is typically afloat of tourists heading to Tahoe, but it’s present bare on a large stretch. Only occurrence crews and archetypal responders are allowed there, moving to support what they can.

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Cal Fire tells america they were capable to chopped the occurrence disconnected earlier reaching Kyburz. As of Thursday evening, Strawberry was the absorption successful presumption of operation extortion and defense.

Laura Haefeli