The director of CalFire called the Caldor Fire the “No. 1 priority in the nation” for securing additional resources to help stave off potential damage the blaze could inflict on a region that is home to tens of thousands.
is “knocking on the door” of the Lake Tahoe basin, the state’s top fire official said Monday.
“It is that important,” Porter told reporters, adding: “We have all efforts to keep it out of the basin.” Eric Schwab, a Cal Fire section chief, said Monday that limiting the fire’s eastern spread toward Tahoe and small mountain communities was a “huge priority.” But firefighters were struggling to contain a spot fire in that section of the blaze that was quickly expanding, he said.
The blaze, which grew by more than 47,000 acres in less than 24 hours, had swelled to more than 106,000 acres by Monday, and it was 5 percent contained. In recent days, the fire jumped U.S. Route 50, the main thoroughfare through the Tahoe area.
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