https://news.yahoo.com/official-says-caldor-fire-simply-200742229.html

Tori B. PowellThu, August 26, 2021, 4:42 AM·2 min read

Firefighters tackling the Caldor Fire now have priority over available resources as the blaze has become “the number one fire in the country right now in terms of priorities for values at risk,” according to El Dorado National Forest supervisor Jeff Marsolais. Burning only 11 miles southwest of the Lake Tahoe area, local officials said they worry about the fire’s spread.

“This fire has just simply outpaced us,” Marsolais said Tuesday night at a community briefing. “We emptied the cupboards of resources, and the local fire chiefs of Amador and El Dorado counties sent every resource they could, and no matter how many folks we tried to get on it, it just continued to outpace us.”

As of Wednesday morning, theCaldor Firehas burned 126,182 acres and is only 11% contained, Cal Firereports. The massive blaze…