Caldo Fire News Today

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - It was the late-night knock on the door nobody wants - an officer standing there telling you to be prepared to evacuate your home due to fire.

For six months, Eric Hatch and his four children were forced to live in tents, after the unforgiving Caldor Fire destroyed their home in the now ravaged Grizzly Flats town.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Cub Scout Pack 592 spent the day April 20 with the Sugar Pine Foundation, Wells Fargo, and other community members and helped plant 1,000 Sugar Pine and White Pine seedlings. They planted them in the Mule Deer/Angora area that had been bulldozed to make fire lines created during the Caldo Fire last year.

Forest thinning projects in the Lake Tahoe Basin just got a new partner that will help remove the threat of wildfires in a cheaper and more efficient manner. The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) Governing Board unanimously approved a change to its policy that will now allow mechanical thinning on slopes with a 30-50 percent grade.

Forest thinning projects in the Lake Tahoe Basin just got a new partner that will help remove the threat of wildfires in a cheaper and more efficient manner. The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) Governing Board unanimously approved a change to its policy that will now allow mechanical thinning on slopes with a 30-50 percent grade.

Representative Tom McClintock sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Friday, calling upon him to fulfill the promise he made to assist the victims of the Caldor Fire when he visited the scene on September 13, 2021.

Representative Tom McClintock sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Friday, calling upon him to fulfill the promise he made to assist the victims of the Caldor Fire when he visited the scene on September 13, 2021.