Winds are trying to blow the fire over the summit and down toward the #TahoeBasin. Here's what's happening at #EchoSummit on the #CaldorFiee. 'I'm a physician and so my whole medical home office where I had to work for the last year is now squeezed into the back of the car,' said Cottrell, as flames surrounded his neighborhood. The 77-year-old waited until the last minute to leave his home just south of Meyers, turning on the sprinklers and packing up whatever he could
There were reports that the fire was moving into the southern end of Meyers Monday evening. SOUTH LAKE TAHOE (CBS SF) - A wall of flames from the Caldor Fire roared over Echo Summit at Highway 50 Monday evening, racing down the mountainside toward the Lake Tahoe Basin where thousands of residents were forced to flee their homes in a mass exodus that clogged the few routes out of the region.įlames burned on both sides of the winding downward slope of Highway 50 - a familiar stretch of roadway to visitors traveling to Tahoe - into Highway 89 and Meyers.
