![]() Army personnel be deployed to serve as firefighting hand crews. In addition, the National Interagency Fire Center has requested that about 200 active-duty U.S. Most recently, 150 military police members were sent to help El Dorado County and the California Highway Patrol conduct traffic control points and secure evacuated areas, he said. The assistance includes 1,059 California National Guard soldiers, sailors and airmen who are providing support to fire suppression operations that range from space-based platforms to boots on the ground, Maj. “We will continue to assess if additional resources are needed.”Īlready, more than 15,000 personnel are working on California’s fires, including nearly 1,200 fire engines, 315 hand crews, 367 dozer units, 411 water tenders and 111 helicopters, officials said during an emergency operations update Monday. “We are tracking the wildfires,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said at a Monday press briefing. The fire’s advance has alarmed President Biden’s administration, which has otherwise been preoccupied by Hurricane Ida on the Gulf Coast. “It meant our citizens were listening to the evacuation orders.”Ĭhris Anthony, a spokesman for the state’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said Caldor remains a “very active” fire that officials expected to continue its march forward.Ĭiting factors including climate change and forest maintenance, Anthony said fires such as the Caldor were no longer an anomaly in the West, and said it was “resistant to control.”Ĭoncern about the potential for disaster is mounting far beyond Tahoe’s typically emerald shores. “For us, that was a good sign,” South Lake Fire Chief Clive Savacool said. Some said the road was more like a parking lot as people scrambled to leave town. So far no structures in those areas had been damaged or destroyed, officials said.īoth areas had largely been evacuated along with South Lake Tahoe where those heading east into Nevada were caught in an hours-long traffic jam Monday afternoon. Specifically, crews were worried about “embers being blown from up at the ridge top landing somewhere down in the valley and taking hold.” “Our significant concern is that spotting,” he said. In the last few days, the fire has been spotting - or producing sparks that are carried by the wind and start new fires - about half a mile ahead of itself, but crews are expecting that distance to expand to more than a mile on Monday due to wind, he said. g1WxBKeWds- CAL FIRE AEU August 30, 2021 Caldor Fire Evacuation Order for 8/30/21 at 11:00 a.m. ![]()
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