Caples Fire News Today

The smoke and haze building around the Carson City region is due to the Caples Fire burning in the Eldorado National Forest. As of Sunday the fire had burned more than 2800 acres and was 35 percent contained.

The Fire Marshal's Office is now investigating the cause of the fire.

Crews have been at the fire on East Shore Beach Road since 1:30 a.m.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Each prescribed fire in the Lake Tahoe Basin is just that, a fire that satisfies a long list of requirements required in a prescription. Typically the prescribed burning of forests start in the fall when conditions are favorable with moisture on the ground and lower temperatures.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Each prescribed fire in the Lake Tahoe Basin is just that, a fire that satisfies a long list of requirements required in a prescription. Typically the prescribed burning of forests start in the fall when conditions are favorable with moisture on the ground and lower temperatures.

Why can’t California utilize prescribed burns that everyone knows are key to restoring biodiversity and resilience, journalist Jane Braxton Little says.

Why can’t California utilize prescribed burns that everyone knows are key to restoring biodiversity and resilience?

California burn bosses set controlled forest fires. Should they be safe from lawsuits? Sacramento Bee 1 hr ago Ryan Sabalow and Dale Kasler, The Sacramento Bee Apr. 22—Across California, property owners and their "burn bosses" are setting fires. When the weather is cool, calm and wet enough, these planned forest fires are designed to clear overgrown vegetation that could accelerate a wildfire in dry months. They do this knowing they risk financial ruin from a lawsuit if some...