Evacuating the Tahoe basin in summer could take 14 hours, and 99% of properties are at risk — yet new resorts are being built ...

“It was just a matter of time before a catastrophic fire torched the landscape of the Lake Tahoe Basin,” the commission wrote in 2008. First: A firefighter hoses down a tree as the Angora Fire ...

But firefighters reported that during the 2007 Angora Fire, those riparian zones carried flames. As they say in the fire service, lessons learned. The Lake Tahoe planning agency now allows ...

“It was just a matter of time before a catastrophic fire torched the landscape of the Lake Tahoe Basin,” the commission wrote in 2008. Wildfires often expose vulnerabilities and policies that need ...

“It was just a matter of time before a catastrophic fire torched the landscape of the Lake Tahoe Basin,” the commission wrote in 2008. First: A firefighter hoses down a tree as the Angora Fire ...

Gary Gerren, the affable fire chief in the community of Fallen Leaf Lake, is serious about protecting the few hundred full-time residents and the thousands of summer daytrippers who descend on his ...