Tag: fire
Ground to Crown
Clearing ladder fuels is a crucial part of defensible space clean-up. Doing such helps to prevent flames from vertically climbing a tree and potentially spreading fire from treetop to treetop.
Clearing for Good
What’s going on with the burn piles and forest clearing happening near Dollar Creek Trail and Rocky Ridge? The California Tahoe Conservancy and California State Parks project managers held a tour to explain.
Woman Arrested for Intentionally Starting Butterfield Fire; Possible Connection to Nearby...
The Butterfield Fire in eastern Truckee was intentionally started by a woman who is in custody, according to Truckee police. There is a possibility the same woman trespassed on Tahoe-Truckee Sanitation Agency property the same morning.
News Briefs | 9 September – 13 October 2021
National forests closed; a fire is quickly quenched on DPR; Sierra Wath declares victory over Alterra; Lake Tahoe is in threat; more.
It’s GO Time!
Experts say that it’s not a matter of if a wildfire will hit the Tahoe/Truckee region but when. Will you be ready to roll should evacuation orders come down?
Firework Displays a No-Go This Fourth of July
Firework displays in North Tahoe/Truckee are canceled for this Fourth of July. The pandemic is partly to blame, but so too is concern of increased visitation and potential wildfire.