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The Caldor Fire was a large wildfire that burned 221,835 acres (89,773 hectares) in the Eldorado National Forest and other areas of the Sierra Nevada in El Dorado, Amador, and Alpine County, California, in the United States during the 2021 California wildfire season. [ 2] The fire was first reported on Saturday, August 14, 2021, and was fully ...
Smoky skies hovered overhead South Lake Tahoe Tuesday as nearby flames of the Caldor Fire closed in on the resort city, one day after thousands of residents were forced to flee the area. The ...
Imagery from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s GOESWest and GOES17 satellites shows the nearly 300-square-mile Caldor Fire burning near Lake Tahoe, California, from space on ...
The Park Fire, which officials said was started by a man who pushed a flaming car into a gully, grew slightly overnight to 368,000 acres (148,924 hectares). The sixth largest wildfire in state ...
List of California wildfires. Santa Ana winds in California expand fires and spread smoke over hundreds of miles, as in this October 2007 satellite image. The Rim Fire consumed more than 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of forest near Yosemite National Park, in 2013. This is a partial and incomplete list of California wildfires.
The 2021 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned across the U.S. state of California. By the end of 2021 a total of 8,835 fires were recorded, burning 2,568,948 acres (1,039,616 ha) across the state. [ 1 ] Approximately 3,629 structures were damaged or destroyed by the wildfires, and at least seven firefighters and two ...
Crews battling the Caldor Fire worked overnight into Friday, August 27, as the blaze spread northeast through northern California’s El Dorado County in the direction of Lake Tahoe, growing to ...
The Caldor Fire started on August 14, 2021, near Little Mountain, south of Pollock Pines in El Dorado County, [9] about two miles (3.2 km) east of Omo Ranch and four miles (6.4 km) south of Grizzly Flats. [10] [11] It initially burned slowly, but exploded in size on August 16