Caldor Fire explodes

[ColdDeadHands1]

Here are some good resources for the Caldor Fire:

Fire perimeter map:

https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/map/7801/0/#

Evacuation map:

https://eldoradocounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=c995bf3816964e948d7d831d3ba938ff

[M&P40FAN]

With the shift in winds I'm concerned about the Volcano area and highway 88 corridor.

[marksolar]

If you want to see the wind patterns, and predicted wind patters, go to
windy.com

[nitroxdiver]

https://forums.wildfireintel.org

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[Defy Concealment]

My girlfriend and her family live 2 blocks from the grizzly flats post office. They managed to get their important things out like photos, pets, and their paperwork, but their house is most likely gone. As bad as it is, others had it much worse.

I will say that as usual, I am impressed with the community in our county. The last two days its been nothing but convoys helping get animals or people out, and many people have opened their properties for trailers and tents. Several local restaurants have been offering free meals to those displaced.

[inthemountains]

Was fortunate enough to visit Grizzly Flats a couple of years back, friends Uncle who passed away last year had a super nice house there. Probably did not survive the fire.

The pool house was bigger than the house I live in. Beautiful county up there.

[iropem]

Cali now is a “perfect storm” for these fires. Actually the whole west is intermittently but California is and always has been the wildfire glory state, increasingly so, to the death and detriment of its residents and businesses. Here is why:
Mediterranean climate with common droughts and common foehn winds all of which sets the stage for disaster.
Fire friendly fuel loading at every elevation that needs frequent low intensity fire to be healthy.
Extremely rough and rugged terrain, lots of which is inaccessible to suppress small initial attack fires regardless of aircraft.
All out fire suppression since 1910 which had led to a mess of choked forests and lots of dead component.
Crazy CRAZY CRAZY state and federal environmental laws.
Widespread limiting of prescribed fire and VMP burns.
Widespread limiting of responsible logging and grazing
Insane unabated building in historical fire corridors.
Population explosion for 30 years in wildland intermix/interface areas.
Limiting transfer of power lines underground in all intermix/interface areas.
Competition for resources when multiple starts get going which just means all the fires get bigger.

This is not an exhaustive list but is accurate IMO

the single biggest issue is corrupt policies, mismanagement and “leadership” in Sacramento for 50 years and definitely not climate change ( “climate change” does give them a good scapegoat to absolve them of responsibility and yet keeps the money flowing)

[user120312]

CalFire info page, updated about an hour ago...

https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/

A bit surprised only 242 personnel on the fire considering it's over 60K acres with zero containment. Short of resources would match the scanner chatter I was listening to yesterday.

Looks like they upgraded the northeast sector warning to an order. Winds are expected to shift to an easterly flow after mid-day, hope the fire doesn't gain a foothold in the American River canyon along 50 that's pretty virgin and a wind funnel, plus a lot of structures along there.

This roughly 100 minutes of raw helo footage from KCRA chronicles yesterday's nastiness pretty well.

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1MnxnlMkzjLGO

God be with the residents and defenders.

[DaveInOroValley]

Have a friend that's been fighting the current fires, he goes where ever needed.

I remember a day when The Forest Service used to have these camps in the Sierra that were filled with low level offenders and all they used to do was clean and clear cut the dead and dying undergrowth.

The prisoners loved being in the outdoors and while hard work it was better than looking at bars all day. Back then I sure don't remember ever having a problem with out of control fires happening.

[Sierra57]

There has been a lot of home building all up and down the Sierras over the last 50 years. I have heard people (usually coastal urbanistas) say that others should not be allowed to live in the mountains in outlying areas. My reply is that people should not be allowed to live in areas where there is the potential for a major earthquake, which leaves them like " Uuuuuuhhh....."

Going further with that mindset, we should not allow building in areas that are prone to hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, blizzards, landslides, etc. That eliminates about 99% of the US.

[USMCmatt]

Great...there will be more smoke in Utah because of this. Get your **** together California.

[Jason_2111]

Hell of a day yesterday... We got evacuated. Managed to get all of the guns out, plus the first dang thing I grabbed was all of my primers and powder.

We're expecting to lose the Freedom Bunker... This one is a bad one and going crazy. With God's will and some luck, maybe not... We'll just have to see what happens.

[jon94520]

Its going to be a bad one, I saw the smoke plume rising from my house in Stagecoach, Nevada this morning.

Check this video its hotter than hades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqU8T8tkWTY&t=123s

WOW, that is roaring

[Redeyedrider]

WTF is going on with all these fires ? Has to be arson ... don't tell me it's climate change

https://twitter.com/i/status/1427826304808755208

Forestry mis-management

This. And climate change is real.... The climate has always been changing. I don't think anybody in their right mind would deny that.

[BrokerB]

well after a few more years of large fires we will have a few decades for no gigantic fires as all the old growth/undergrowth is burnt up. Over the last 27 years in Sacramento valley ,not until the last 6 years, have we had summers full of smoke.