Between Highway 50 and Slab Creek from Snows Road to Ice House Road.South of Highway 50 from Snows Road to Ice House Road.The area between Highway 88 and Mormon Emigrant Trail.All roads off of Omo Ranch from Cedarville Road to Hwy 88.This includes Slug Gulch, Omo Ranch, and all roads off of Slug Gulch and Omo Ranch. Intersection of Perry Creek and Hawk Haven, the East side of Fairplay Road from Perry Creek South to Cedarville Road.North of Highway 50, east of Forebay Road to Ice House Road.This includes the communities of Pacific House and Fresh Pond.
East of Sly Park Road between Highway 50 and Mormon Emigrant Trail to Ice House Road. The areas of Myers Lane, Varmet Ridge Road, Rodwell Canyon Road, Snowbird Lane, and Mehwald Lane. Grizzly Flats Road east of four corners in somerset into Grizzly Flats Proper. The areas of Diamond Railroad Grade, Old School House, Sweeney Road, Caldor Road, and steely Ridge. Grizzly Flats: The areas on Grizzly Flats Road east of Kendra Way into Grizzly Flats Proper. Incident Information, Evacuations, Road Closures. That man, identified as 51-year-old Brandon Massey, has since been arrested and is now facing charges of looting during a State of Emergency and possession of a controlled substance, among other charges. He was found with items that deputies suspected to have been stolen. Eric Palmberg with the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office.ĭeputies soon converged on the area and stopped the man. "We got a call from a citizen actually watching one of their surveillance cameras," said Sgt. The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office said a suspicious man was spotted on a Pollock Pines resident's home surveillance camera. While thousands of residents have been forced to flee their homes, an alleged looter was arrested on Wednesday during a patrol of evacuation area. "I just think that the smoke and the fires have gotten bigger, hotter and faster-moving." And I think it's becoming a reality for us, unfortunately," Diane Nelson said. "Everybody's trying to make accommodations for the smoke. In the end, the Nelsons spent two days arranging to have the wedding moved from the glacial lake several hours southwest to the San Francisco Bay Area. The sun was an eerie blood orange, and the floats and boats in the lake were obscured by haze Tuesday. However, the smoke caused most of the community to leave. South of Tahoe, Rick Nelson and his wife, Diane, had planned to host a weekend wedding at Fallen Leaf Lake, where his daughter and her fiance had met. South Lake Tahoe and Tahoe City on the west shore had the nation's worst air pollution at midmorning Wednesday, reaching 334, in the "hazardous" category of the 0-500 Air Quality Index, according to AirNow, a partnership of federal, state and local air agencies. The wind shift will help thin the smoke layer above Lake Tahoe. On the ridgetops and the very critical east side of the fire, we will not have the aiding effect of the southwest winds." "We are going to have very light winds aloft. "This southerly wind flow that has been feeding into the fire area and helping to drive the afternoon south to southwest winds is going to stop," he said. The afternoon gusty southwest winds will be calming down. Nearly 3,000 firefighters were involved in the firefight assisted by a steady stream of helicopters and air tankers dumping retardant and water.įirefighters will also be aided by a change in wind conditions over the next three days, according to incident meteorologist Jim Dudley. 
It has ravaged the mountain community of Grizzly Flats and destroyed at least 465 homes across the burn zone. To the west, crews were using backfires to gain greater control of the blaze and stopping its spread along the north and middle fork of the Cosumnes River.īy Thursday evening, the fire had grown to 139,643 acres with 12 percent containment. The eastern edge of the blaze was where the most intense firefight was being waged. Those dead and downed materials are very receptive. "We are looking at very dense timber, very large diameter trees - 40 inches in diameter," Volmer said. The wildfire is burning in an area that has not had a major fire or been thinned by flames prior to the 1940s.
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