Caldor Fire explodes

[user120312]

Yeah its really sad. But all the resources were focused on trying stop it from spreading to the west because that is where a lot of homes are. I dont know when they started using airtankers to drop retardant, but seems like they couldnt get any deployed until at least a week.

Some early reports from the 15th before it exploded had air assets on it, but then apparently left it at that and didn't bring in anything to mop up. If true, fatal error.

Looking at this afternoon's map, the winds have picked up again and the northwest fork of the eastern flank is making quite a run across the relatively unpopulated wilderness to the west of SLT. Unchecked, it could pop over the top into the Emerald Bay area. Hopefully the weather will moderate and humidity recovery will improve and it'll die off in the wilderness before getting there.

[spegull03]

Looks like they are starting to lift the evacuation orders near Pollock Pines, fingers crossed you guys can get back in your homes soon.

[Cali-Glock]

Looks like they are starting to lift the evacuation orders near Pollock Pines, fingers crossed you guys can get back in your homes soon.

Caldor Fire News Release

[NorCalBusa]

Juan is a man of many talents: aircraft crash reporting and analysis, fun adventure flying, weather, fire status...

And he drives Trip-7's for a living.

[WartHog]

C130's out of McClellan are pounding the Wright's Lake area pretty hard...

[user120312]

Looks like there's a bunch of structures around Wright's Lake. Here's the latest combo map with the GOES data for that location. Winds don't look good, at all....

https://sartopo.com/map.html#ll=38.84907,-120.2318&z=14&b=om&a=structures%2Cmodis_mpg%2Cwxd_wgust-01

[Sierra57]

Looks like there's a bunch of structures around Wright's Lake. Here's the latest combo map with the GOES data for that location. Winds don't look good, at all....
https://sartopo.com/map.html#ll=38.8...2Cwxd_wgust-01

Fortunately, not too far to the east is 2-3 miles of granite with very few trees.

[Tere_Hanges]

Wright's lake is beautiful but its super crowded. That whole area is.

Im super bummed that Lake Kirkwood campground appears to have been destroyed. That was a quiet little sanctuary.

Hopefully Silver Lake Campground was saved. They just reopened it this year, all new.

Caples campground was just completed this year too.

Hopefully Crystal Springs campground is still standing. The Tamarack fire came right up to it.

[sfhondapilot]

They have begun powering up in Christmas valley and nearby neighborhoods. Our blink camera came back up and, thankfully, the neighborhood looks okay (Oneidas & Pioneer Trail). SIS's house in Christmas Valley also looks okay, based on their cameras.

[beanz2]

So, no more updates. Are we getting the upper hand on this?

Zoom Earth seems to show no further spread into Heavenly North or East this AM.

[NorCalBusa]

Lots of drops all night, all focused on the canyon run giving it nowhere to go. East of South Lake.

That fire NE of Portola has gotten revved up again and a lot of resources were reassigned to it. It a SE element (fork?) that branched out they hoped dozer lines would stop...they didn't.

[Spyder]

[Cali-Glock]

There were two repopulation orders today.

One at 2pm

Another at 4:45pm

Hopefully Jason_2111's home was included in one of those orders.

[Misterclick]

Really glad that it has turned out well for many in Tahoe. My heart goes out to all the folks that lost their homes and everything they have worked for in this.

[Cali-Glock]

Really glad that it has turned out well for many in Tahoe. My heart goes out to all the folks that lost their homes and everything they have worked for in this.

The fact that the fire literally jumped over Christmas Valley seems like a miracle. I know there were lots of fires among the homes as well but I understand they were very effective at protecting properties there!

You can look at the map showing the status of structures in the fire zone here.