Climate Adaptation
Lake Tahoe Fire Threat Grows as High Winds Fan Flames
- Thousands have fled amid evacuation orders for Caldor Fire
- No rains coming soon enough to relieve dangerous conditions
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California firefighters battled gusty winds Wednesday to keep a raging wildfire out of the resort town South Lake Tahoe as evacuation orders spread into Nevada.
Crews were mostly able to steer the Caldor Fire away from homes and cabins nestled along the southern shore of the lakeside paradise that thousands had fled just a day before.