From Gold Rush clear-cutters to modern home-builders, people have brought changes to the Tahoe basin that have fueled the intensity of the 2,500-acre Angora fire near the town of South Lake Tahoe. By Monday night, 178 homes had fallen casualty to the 2-day-old blaze, which was only 40 percent contained. Ecologists and local residents said they saw such a disaster coming. ( SF Chronicle)
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Wildfire Consumes Lake Tahoe Region
Category: Environment
Posted on: June 27, 2007 12:15 PM, by EJGili
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