Traffic backs up on Highway 50 as people evacuate ahead of the Caldor Fire on Aug. 30, 2021, in South Lake Tahoe, California. The fire continues to advance toward South Lake Tahoe and a red flag ...

But what comes next for the Caldor fire is a terrifying prospect of an entirely different magnitude. With the fire now in the Tahoe Basin, Cal Fire estimates that 33,679 homes are threatened.

Firefighters may steer the Caldor fire into the Tamarack fire. Here’s why L.A. County firefighter Kevin Reid battles the Caldor fire off Highway 89 west of South Lake Tahoe.

After years covering California’s wildfires, a photographer experienced the event from the other side of the lens. Fighting the Caldor fire near Pollock Pines, Calif., on Wednesday.Credit ...

In August of last year, the Caldor Fire blazed up the Highway 50 corridor, ... At the top of the list of items needed by displaced residents: warm clothing to get through the winter.

Hazardous conditions from Caldor Fire threaten area 00:14. Firefighters tackling the Caldor Fire now have priority over available resources as the blaze has become "the number one fire in the ...

CHRISTMAS VALLEY, Calif. – The sound of Caldor Fire embers falling from the sky and landing on windshields made a familiar noise. “It was almost like it was sprinkling, but it was sprinkling ...

The Caldor Fire burned more than 220,000 acres and destroyed more than a thousand structures. Estimates vary as to how many primary residences burned. FEMA says about 400, ...

The rural community of Grizzly Flats – devastated in the 2021 Caldor Fire – celebrated a step forward Friday. Crews broke ground on the first home to be rebuilt under a new program the county ...