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Controlled fire operations set for this week


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Weather permitting, the U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit may continue prescribed fire operations starting April 20. Operations may take place in Blackwood Canyon between Tahoe City and Tahoma, at Ski Run Boulevard near Heavenly and on the East Shore near Logan Creek Drive. Operations may last through the next several weeks as conditions allow.

Each operation follows a prescribed fire burn plan, which considers temperature, humidity, wind, moisture of the vegetation, and conditions for the dispersal of smoke. This information is used to decide when and where to burn.

Smoke from prescribed fire operations is normal and may continue for several days after an ignition depending on the project size. Agencies coordinate with state and local county air pollution control districts and monitors weather conditions closely prior to prescribed fire ignition. They wait for favorable conditions that will carry smoke up and out of the Basin.

The Forest Service updates the local fire information line at 530.543.2600, No. 6.

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  1. tahoebluewire says - Posted: April 22, 2015

    Allow me to correct;

    “Warning to locals; possible uncontrolled fire operations set for this week”. “Also, ah, sorry about the Angora fire. Like, whoops”.

  2. Biggerpicture says - Posted: April 22, 2015

    Taboebluewire, are you inferring that the USFS was to blame for the campfire left unattended near Seneca Pond that started the Angora Fire?

  3. rock4tahoe says - Posted: April 22, 2015

    Um Wire. No correction needed. The Angora Fire was started by a neglected campfire.

  4. tahoebluewire says - Posted: April 22, 2015

    Oh sorry for the confusion. I meant they are sorry for 100 years of forest miss-management practices that lead to the fire. And the control burn that got out of control that day.

  5. tahoebluewire says - Posted: April 22, 2015

    On public record: “On July 3 the California Highway Patrol announced investigations into whether 911 dispatchers failed to notify authorities about numerous calls that began coming into them about the Angora Fire. A number of calls that were received about the fire were disregarded by dispatchers who claimed that the fire was a controlled burn.”

    Go ahead and beleive the cover up.

  6. tahoebluewire says - Posted: April 22, 2015

    And from the investigator: ““At this particular campfire there was limited forensic evidence, but there were certain characteristics of the campfire that were unique. But for the integrity of the case we don’t want to describe what they were,” Brady said. “I will say it did not have evidence of a large party fire we see in the woods … where there is a big bonfire and lots of beer bottles around.”

    Because it was not an illegal campfire.

  7. nature bats last says - Posted: April 23, 2015

    Heywire, the wind was the culprit that day and was really the reason for the quick spread. But you go ahead and point fingers at the FS because thats what you do so well.

  8. rock4tahoe says - Posted: April 25, 2015

    Wire. So because Brady said, “it did not have evidence of a large party fire” that means it was NOT an neglected campfire? You have never seen a small campfire without beer bottles?