“It’s a big hit for our local businesses and the workers who rely on a steady income to pay rent and put food on their table,” said Devin Middlebrook, mayor pro-tem of South Lake Tahoe. The wildfire dealt a major blow to an economy that heavily depends on tourism and was starting to rebound this summer from pandemic shutdowns. The resort area can easily accommodate 100,000 people on a busy weekend but was eerily empty just before the Labor Day weekend. Residents who were forced to flee South Lake Tahoe earlier this week remained evacuated along with people across the state line in Douglas County, Nevada. 14, was named after the road where it started and raged through densely forested, craggy areas - was still considered a threat to more than 30,000 homes, businesses and other buildings ranging from cabins to ski resorts. “Just because we don’t have red flag wind conditions across the fire, the wind threat is still there and it’s all localized,” he warned. With the fire growing at the smallest rate in two weeks, he said, “Things are clearly heading in the right direction for us.”Īmid the positive outlook, incident meteorologist Jim Dudley warned that the air mass in the Sierra Nevada drains downslope every night and then sloshes upslope during the day and that the region’s terrain of ridges and deep canyons can create winds that go in “squirrely directions.”
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Let’s take full advantage of it while we have this window.” “Very positive trends with regards to weather,” said Dean Gould, a U.S. Calmer winds and increased humidity Thursday and Friday helped crews increase containment of the blaze to 29%. The fire had been driven northeast on a course leading to South Lake Tahoe for days by southwestern winds, but that pattern ended this week. On that contingent, we’re getting close,” he said. Jake Cagle, another operations section chief, said fire and law enforcement officials are evaluating the issue in meetings several times a day to determine when to lift evacuation orders. Utility companies have to make sure power is restored, fire crews will have to remove hazardous trees and other threats to power lines, and roadways have to be cleared of debris. Residents on western and northern sides of the fires were allowed back home by Friday afternoon, but fire officials said they don’t have a specific timeline for repopulating South Lake Tahoe.
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