The burned homes are located near Mule Deer Road, Mount Rainer, Clear View and Lake Tahoe Boulevard areas with 2000 acres already burned and growing, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The wildfire broke out around 2:15 p.m. Sunday in the upper Angora Creek drainage. Evacuations were in place across the North Upper Truckee area with residents in the Saw Mill Pond and Gardner Mountain areas being told to prepare to leave their homes. At least two South Lake Tahoe Fire Department vehicles had been lost to the flames, but there have been no reports of injuries. Flames were being fanned by winds of up to 25 miles-per-hour, and the National Weather Service was calling for gusts of up to 35 miles-per-hour. There is no estimate available yet on containment of this fire according to the US Forest Service, however there will be another round of air attack on the fire at daylight today.
Sunday, 24 June 2007 23:54
Fire Burning Out of Control Near Tahoe: 165 Structures Destroyed As Of 10:30 PM Last Night
At
least 165 structures have been destroyed with more endangered and more than
1,000 residents were evacuated ahead of a massive wind-driven blaze raging in
the south Lake Tahoe area near Angora Lake Ridge,
between Meyers Lake
and Fallen leaf Lake. Linda Curran of the Camino
Interagency Dispatch
Center in California said the Angora Fire has
destroyed 165 homes or outbuildings. “I can confirm 50 structures have
been destoyed by fire, but I can’t tell you yet how many of them were homes and
how many were outbuildings,” Curran said.