SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. Douglas Gregory Edwards, 37, formerly of Berkeley, pleaded guilty Tuesday to setting fire to federal land in the Lake Tahoe area three years ago. On July 5, 2020, Edwards set three separate fires in the forest and near hiking trails - the Echo Fire, the Upper Fire, and Lake Fire.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - One man has been arrested in connection with three suspicious fires in the Echo Peak and Echo Lakes area on July 5, 2020. The fires, the Echo Fire, the Upper Fire, and the Lake Fire, appear to have been intentionally started.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. Douglas Gregory Edwards, 37, formerly of Berkeley, pleaded guilty Tuesday to setting fire to federal land in the Lake Tahoe area three years ago. On July 5, 2020, Edwards set three separate fires in the forest and near hiking trails - the Echo Fire, the Upper Fire, and Lake Fire.
Driver stranded for 7 days after GPS sends him to treacherous road By Gregory Thomas and Nora Mishanec
A Tahoe driver who survived seven days stranded in the Sierra told officials he was led astray by a GPS navigation system that directed him down a notoriously treacherous mountain road.
Rescuers helicoptered Harland Earls of Placer County to safety Sunday, two hours after emergency dispatchers tracked his cell phone to a remote country road in the heart of Tahoe National Forest and seven days after he started out on what should have been a straight shot to a friend’s home, Sierra County officials said.
A Tahoe driver was stranded for 7 hours in snow. Officials say it happens all the time By Gregory Thomas
A Tahoe man who survived a blizzard while stranded in his pickup truck for 7 days in remote Sierra wilderness told officials he was initially led astray by his GPS navigation system.
On Jan. 24, the man, 29-year-old Harland Earls of Placer County, set out from a friend’s home in Grass Valley for the 60-mile drive to Truckee. Under mild conditions, it’s a straight shot from Highway 20 to Interstate 80 over Donner Pass. However, winter road closures prompted Earls’ GPS app to reroute him along an obscure back road, where he ran into trouble.