DEVELOPING: Caldor Fire in Northern California prompts thousands more to evacuate after it grows nearly 10 times in size in the past two days.
for El Dorado County early Tuesday, mobilizing the California National Guard and freeing up additional resources for impacted communities.
Two people were flown to hospitals with serious injuries and very few homes were left standing in El Dorado County's Grizzly Flats. Streets in the town of about 1,200 residents were littered with downed power lines and poles. Houses were reduced to smoldering ash and twisted metal with only chimneys rising above the ruins. A post office and elementary school were also destroyed.
On Tuesday, the neighborhoods of Pollock Pines, Sly Park, Happy Valley and the Grizzly Flats and Somerset areas were all issued mandatory evacuation orders while campers were rushed out of the Sly Park Recreation Area. Dark heavy smoke blanketed much of the area encircling the Caldor Fire, including nearby Lake Tahoe and other population destinations, prompting bumper-to-bumper traffic along evacuation routes.
This year has seen extreme heat that helped fuel fires across the Western United States, which has been exacerbated by
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