Terrifying images show fiery column looming over Caldor Fire near Lake Tahoe

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Katie Dowd Updated: Aug. 17, 2021 6:08 p.m.



Wildfire cameras captured terrifying images Monday afternoon of the massive column of smoke and flames rising up from the Caldor Fire burning near Lake Tahoe.

The wildfire camera positioned on Leek Spring Hill, about 40 miles southwest of South Lake Tahoe, showed the blaze looking more like an erupting volcano than the type of wildfires that Californians are sadly accustomed to.

"Radar shows the smoke plume at about 20,000 feet," said Cory Mueller, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Sacramento office. "For a fire, that’s pretty good."

"It's very scary," said Neil Lareau, a professor of atmospheric sciences in the department of physics at the University of Nevada at Reno who studies wildfire-generated weather. "We have the worst mix of things you could put together for fires, which is a combination of dry vegetation, strong, shifting winds and an atmosphere conducive to these deep smoke plumes."......................

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I was hiking around Lake emerald and Tahoe area about 5 years ago. So magnificent--and peaceful.
This is beyond terrifying to see.




-Updates: Get info on the Caldor Fire from the El Dorado National Forest.
-Information line: [phone]
-Maps: Find from the U.S. Forest Service.


“Terrifying images show fiery column looming over Caldor Fire near Lake Tahoe” Oh, hell…

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Guy Tucker photographed the Caldor Fire 3 miles due west from Fair Play, Calif., late Monday night on Aug. 16, 2021.