Crews were digging in and burning out fire lines amid another round of high winds that contributed to the fury to a Northern California wildfire.
The Associated Press
The Caldor Fire in the northern Sierra Nevada already destroyed dozens of homes, and authorities on Friday closed down a 46-mile stretch of U.S. Route 50, the main route between the state capital of Sacramento and Lake Tahoe on the Nevada state line. Firefighters made progress on the fire’s western side and burned vegetation to starve it of fuel and prevent the flames from heading into the evacuated community of Pollock Pines. On the northeast side, crews were protecting cabins in the dense forest area, fire officials said.
The fires, mainly in the northern part of the state, have burned roughly 2,300 square miles and have sent smoke as far as the East Coast. They were burning in grass, brush and forest that is exceptionally dry from two years of drought likely exacerbated by climate change.
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