Near South Lake Tahoe, Ernst says firefighters did a lot of good work controlling the fire near Heavenly valley.įirefighters increased containment to 29%. The fire is still spotting in some areas. The Wrights Lake area was firefighters “biggest priority,” Ernst said, and there remains lots of work in that region to protect homes and structures. Tim Ernst with Cal Fire used the words “cautiously optimistic” to describe Thursday’s fire activity, where he says there were “no significant fire runs.” The Caldor fire calmed again over Thursday night, with firefighters able to develop more control and limit its growth. "We're going to continue to have a presence in that area, we want to get that wrapped up so we can work on doing repopulation down the road for you." "Everything through Christmas Valley in the interior looks really good," Cagle said. Jake Cagle, operations section chief with the California Interagency Incident Management Team, said firefighters were having success keeping the fire away from homes in the Lake Tahoe Basin. There are some active areas throughout the fire perimeter on the east, north and south edges of the fire, though firefighters were optimistic Friday evening. He also said it may take longer to reopen the whole of Grizzly Flats, where many homes were destroyed, to clear debris from the area. "Our folks are going to be in and out of your driveways," said Beale Monday with the National Incident Management Team and Cal Fire.Įric Palmberg with the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office said that some areas are slowly being repopulated to ease the strain on water and other resources. Officials said firefighters will remain in the newly opened areas, and residents returning to their homes should watch out for equipment as they come back. "That's getting us back to that repopulation." "That also shows a bit of the turn in the incident for us on the west zone," Martin said. Incident Commander Dusty Martin said the lifting of evacuation orders was a sign of the progress firefighters made near where the fire started nearly three weeks ago.
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