Everything is on fire...
A state of emergency was issued for El Dorado County, with 220 structures reportedly destroyed and hundreds more threatened Sunday as South Lake Tahoe's worst fire in half a century consumed more than 2,000 acres and sent hundreds of people scurrying for safety.
No injuries had been reported, but the major blaze prompted by severe wind gusts was still out of control as of press time. Hundreds of spot fires erupted as embers blew through the air. Popping sounds like gunfire cracked across the sky as trees burst into flames.
Mass evacuations of residents were ordered in the North Upper Truckee and Tahoe Mountain areas - where the fire shot up the ridge and burned homes on Mule Deer Road, Coyote Ridge Circle, Mount Rainier Drive, Clear View Drive on up to Uplands Way near Angora Ridge. All but two homes had burned on Pyramid Circle.
*The High School was saved (everything around it burned) due to the large amount of sports fields around it.
*Reports are saying that the fire is 0-5% under control.
*Coyote Ridge Circle is gone.
*Red Cross is at the rec center.
*The fire is now heading towards fallen leaf lake.
http://www.kcra.com/wxcam/1471811/detail.html
No injuries had been reported, but the major blaze prompted by severe wind gusts was still out of control as of press time. Hundreds of spot fires erupted as embers blew through the air. Popping sounds like gunfire cracked across the sky as trees burst into flames.
Mass evacuations of residents were ordered in the North Upper Truckee and Tahoe Mountain areas - where the fire shot up the ridge and burned homes on Mule Deer Road, Coyote Ridge Circle, Mount Rainier Drive, Clear View Drive on up to Uplands Way near Angora Ridge. All but two homes had burned on Pyramid Circle.
*The High School was saved (everything around it burned) due to the large amount of sports fields around it.
*Reports are saying that the fire is 0-5% under control.
*Coyote Ridge Circle is gone.
*Red Cross is at the rec center.
*The fire is now heading towards fallen leaf lake.
http://www.kcra.com/wxcam/1471811/detail.html