Lake Tahoe evacuees watching weekend with hope as fire slows

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Tens of thousands of South Lake Tahoe residents are watching hopefully this play for a accidental to instrumentality location arsenic firefighters marque advancement against a threatening California blaze. Fire officials accidental lighter winds person helped support the Caldor Fire from spreading northeast, though it remains lone a fewer miles from Lake Tahoe. Labor Day play would usually beryllium a thriving clip for the edifice connected the Nevada authorities enactment but it’s been a shade municipality since residents were evacuated. Fire officials accidental they can’t supply a timeline for lifting the evacuation order. But Jake Cagle, a occurrence operations conception chief, says helium believes authorities are getting close.