{"id":704688,"date":"2021-08-31T21:35:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T01:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=704688"},"modified":"2021-08-31T21:35:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T01:35:54","slug":"lake-tahoe-evacuations-ordered-as-caldor-fire-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lake-tahoe-evacuations-ordered-as-caldor-fire-spreads\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Tahoe Evacuations Ordered As Caldor Fire Spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flake-tahoe-evacuations-ordered-as-caldor-fire-spreads%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=704688&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/8BC41A13-B545-43E8-9559-F2E4669D1735_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Residents of the Lake Tahoe area of California are receiving evacuation orders as the Caldor Fire continues to spread.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/30\/us\/caldor-fire-evauation-order-california.html\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a>, \u201cAs the<span class=\"s2\">&nbsp;Caldor fire<\/span>&nbsp;intensified amid dry and windy conditions, thousands of people along the lake\u2019s southern and western shores were ordered to evacuate. Crews of firefighters sped to put out spot fires only miles from South Lake Tahoe, Calif.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/08\/31\/lake-tahoe-caldor-fire\/\">The Washington Post<\/a>, \u201cOn Monday, the Caldor Fire became the second fire in California history to cross the Sierra Nevada, traveling up and over the highest ridgetops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe haven\u2019t had fires burn from one side of the Sierra to the other,\u201d Cal Fire Director Thom Porter said at a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ETR8LT3OmJw\"><span class=\"s3\">news conference<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;Monday. \u201cWe did with the Dixie; now we have with the Caldor \u2014 two times in our history, and they are both happening this month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Thousands of people were evacuated from the Tahoe area, specifically on the western and southern shores of the lake.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cExperts warn that the Caldor Fire, which has burned about 192,000 acres, could continue its march toward Tahoe in the next few days, destroying thousands of structures and putting lives at risk,\u201d The Post noted.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/california-firefighters-snow-machines-fight-caldor-fire-tahoe-report\">reported<\/a> that California firefighters were using snow machines to battle the Caldor Fire blazes at a ski resort.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe machines helped workers to protect the main base buildings of the Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort, located in Twin Bridges near&nbsp;<span class=\"s4\">South Lake Tahoe<\/span>,\u201d the oulet noted.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As of Tuesday, Cal Fire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/incidents\/2021\/8\/14\/caldor-fire\">listed<\/a> the Caldor Fire as 16% contained and said it has been active for seventeen days. Its cause is unknown, but it has affected 191,607 acres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/08\/31\/us\/lake-tahoe-resident-stops-to-play-the-violin-in-evacuation-traffic-trnd\/index.html\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a> one resident decided to ease the fears of fellow evacuees by playing his violin on the road while people were stuck in a massive traffic jam trying to get out of the Tahoe area after evacuation orders were put forward.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThere was this traffic jam of all traffic jams, it was worse than trying to leave a Grateful Dead concert,\u201d he said. \u201cWe moved along for about half a block and then it was solid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI couldn\u2019t just sit there and waste time,\u201d he said. \u201cI did feel like people were in their cars listening to me, like I was going to be giving a performance, but that really wasn\u2019t the idea.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI was kind of looking around and hoping someone would bring out a guitar or a mandoline \u2014 the joy of making music just makes me feel really good,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This is not the only fire to be affecting the state of California.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As CBS San Francisco <a href=\"https:\/\/sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com\/2021\/08\/31\/dixie-fire-update-new-evacuations-fire-train\/\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a>, \u201cThe second-largest wildfire in California history, the Dixie Fire burned another 36,000 acres over the past 24 hours and prompted new evacuations in Plumas County Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cAs of Tuesday morning, the Dixie Fire had burned 807,396 acres, or nearly 1,300 square miles since the fire began on July 14 above the Cresta Dam in the Feather River Canyon area of the Sierra-Cascades region. Containment remained at 48%,\u201d the outlet noted, adding, \u201cThe wildfire has destroyed more than 1,200 structures, including nearly 700 homes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of the Lake Tahoe area of California are receiving evacuation orders as the Caldor Fire continues to spread.\u00a0As The New York Times reported, \u201cAs the\u00a0Caldor fire\u00a0intensified amid dry and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}