#Caldor Fire

[cellphishthekaiju]

Writing Patterns

rules: Share the first line of your last ten published works or as many as you are able and see if there are any patterns!

I was tagged by @roughlytwentytwofrogs

1. Fire Falling from the Sky (Baldur's Gate 3)

“Vlaakith gha’g shkath zai!” The warrior snarled as Shadowheart parried his blade, the polished steel glinting in the dim light before the githyanki gurgles and collapses, bloodied blade sliding out of the warrior as he slumps over, Caldor grimacing with concentration; having come up behind the alien warrior to strike the fatal blow.

2. Vyper's Mask (Original Sapphic BDSM Romance)

Synport.

3. Favored Princess (Baldur's Gate 3)

What the hell was she thinking?!

4. I Am the One (Dragon Age: Origins)

The world slowly came back into focus, ears ringing and the back of her head throbbing painfully from where it had smacked the stone floor.

5. Wrong Turn at Faerun (Baldur's Gate 3)

The Moonsilver Solstice was Kalach’s favorite holiday.

6. Kiss Me Until You're Drunk (Baldur's Gate 3)

Shadowheart woke in a cold sweat, her right hand seized up and clawed in pain as the black scar on the back of her right hand weeps black ichor.

7. Descend Beyond Avernus (Baldur's Gate 3)

Two Months Prior…

8. A Questionable Use of Dominate Person (Baldur's Gate 3)

“You want to… what?” Hestra retorts, not sure she heard her githyanki paramour correctly.

9. Tear up the Town (Love, Death, Robots)

Sonnie looked at the bottle in her hand.

10. Possessive (Baldur's Gate 3)

The victory tastes like ash in Shadowheart’s mouth.

Hmm, the pattern seems like a favor my 'hook' to focus on the main protagonist in some manner... or at least one of them, if there's multiple. It seems to, always, happen in the middle of an event, action, thought, etc.

What do you guys think?

Also check out the fics, cause why not? they're there.

Also gonna tag @larissel @robeca-black @dilutedpilk & @cobalt-cactus... cause this was kinda fun to do.

[thelastchair]

Junkshow Media House - Season 11

(Written by The Crew - December 19, 2023)

Junkshow Media House is back with their 11th season. The first installment of the year features Josh Daiek and Stan Rey, crushing the Tahoe backyard during the depths of a storm. Enjoy.

In the spirit of keeping shit simple, we batched the episodes into one post - Episode 2, Ring The Bell is full of spines, lines and some fucking good times.

[leibal]

CAMPout is a minimal residence located in Truckee, California, designed by Faulkner Architects with Nicole Hollis. As wildfires continue to ravage the West Coast, architects are increasingly taking into consideration the threat of fire in their designs. One such project is a family home near Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada range, which was built with fire-resistant materials and a protective posture in response to the Caldor Fire that came within 25 miles of the location in 2021, destroying over a thousand structures

[jimothy-g-brooks]

Game Idea

Game that’s a love letter to some other games. Namely, Resident Evil, Call Of Duty, Halo and Doom, in that order.

Basic plot: You have one of those bioweapon R&D’s that makes living weapons and super soldiers, ala Umbrella Corp with a little bit of Spartan Project. They’re falling behind their rivals and risk losing funding, so they start dabbling in diabolism in order to give their projects a little extra spice, ala UAC. Things go predictably wrong in one of their secret blacksite labs underneath a densely populated city when whole city blocks collapse into sinkholes / Hellmouths and the genetically augmented legions of Hell start pouring out. Basic stuff.

The game is split between four campaign with four main characters, each one with their own story and playstyle with limited interactions between them.

Rose is a civilian, one of many who ends up caught in this horror shitshow. She ends up falling into one of the sinkholes and trapped in the demon infested depths of the laboratories. She has to scavenge for supplies while looking for a way out. She can barely shoot a gun, has no first aid training, so every item she grabs is only half as effective as it should be. A double-barrel is probably the biggest thing she finds and firing it knocks her on her ass. Luckily, she only attracts the attention of the most basic bio-demons but such creatures are major threats to her.

Private Caldor is a marine stationed at a nearby military base, currently on leave or however that works in the marines for being an insubordinate shit. When shit goes down, everybody is called in, but he’s not in a position to arrive on time and finds out he might be the last soldier left by this point. Disobeying his commanding officer’s last order to get the fuck out of their, he instead scours the city for survivors to save as many as he can, finding out that his higher up knew about the ticking time bomb under everyone’s feet. He actually runs into Rose, either in the middle of her campaign, thereby failing to get her out of there, or at the end, perhaps being the guy who saves her. He knows how to, ya know, use stuff and probably knows where to find really good stuff. Unlike Rose, he can run and shoot at the same time! He run a lot longer than her too. He does this hobbling run though where it throws off his aim but he can do it.

Captain Haley is a supersoldier in power armor from a far more successful R&D lab and is sent in to clean up this mess as soon as things go haywire. She plays a lot like Private Caldor except for a lot of key differences- minimized shake, it’s still there but almost unnoticeable, endless sprint, better weapons, she can CQC with many of these bio-demons and can just stay in one spot in order to regenerate health. She is actively seeking the nastiest concentrations of these things in order to stem the infestation and dance around her superiors’ orders to just use a nuke buried at the bottom of the base. Haley and Caldor cross paths, but it’s mostly a matter of him going “What the Fuck” as a space marine runs by him and her going, “Oh wow, there’s some vanilla dude still fighting over here, good for him.”

Dorn was a demon hunter from centuries ago, buried in an unmarked grave just outside the city. Half zombie, half wraith, he rises up once again when his spirit feels another incursion on the world of the living. Since he hovers above the ground, he moves impossibly fast with absolutely no jostling. He can carry a huge arsenal because he just keep everything in a pocket dimension until he’s not using it, switching weapons comes with fwooshing fire animation. He only heals by killing demons. He knows precisely where the main portal is by sixth sense and similarly the demons know where he is and their most powerful soldiers make a beeline for him. Haley and Dorn cross paths, though it’s barely a moment for Dorn and a real “What the Fuck” for Haley. He does cross paths with Rose, where in her campaign depending on where she ran into Caldor. Either way, he’s impressed by how an unaugmented mortal has survived this long. Rose, on the other hand, just assumes the flaming skeleton in full plate armor is another monster here to kill her with predictable reactions.

I was thinking the Dorn and Rose campaign would be unlockables for beating their adjacent campaigns. A purposeful incongruity would be that the characters are silent protagonists in their own campaigns but when cameoing in someone else’s would have voiced lines.

[xtruss]

One month after George Floyd was murdered while in police custody in Minnesota, Kris Graves photographed the remnants of the Confederacy in and around Richmond, Virginia. “One late night on statue-lined Monument Avenue, I came across projections by artist Dustin Klein on the monument of Robert E. Lee,” he writes. “We stood and watched a seemingly endless rotation of Black lives that had been ended at the hands of police.” Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of Floyd’s murder one year later, but Graves writes that “this continues to be an epidemic in the United States.” Photograph By Kris Graves, National Geographic

Wildlife ranger Joseph Wachira comforts Sudan, the last living male northern white rhino, as he laid dying at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya in March 2018. “He died surrounded by people who loved him,” wrote Ami Vitale, who was there to capture his last goodbyes. She added that she hoped that Sudan's legacy “will awaken us to protect this magnificent and fragile planet.” Photograph By Ami Vitale, National Geographic

While documenting the treacherous waters and fishing culture of the Aleutian Islands, photographer and salmon fisherman Corey Arnold captured this image. “Every night in Unalaska, I'd spot this red fox near the side of the road, charming drivers with its irresistible cuteness into throwing it snacks out the window,” he writes. “On this evening, I spent a few hours watching this fox at work, using my headlights to light the scene.” Photograph By Corey Arnold, National Geographic

“I don’t know about you, but fireflies take me back to childhood,” writes Kiliii Yuyan, who captured these synchronous fireflies flashing at early nighttime in the forests of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. “Here, in the space all around me, a thousand tiny green-yellow lights are miniature lanterns, blazing long enough to be seen but always escaping my cupped hands.” Photograph By Kiliii Yuyan, National Geographic

This is a rare example of performing polar bears, a controversial but not illegal practice in Kazan, Russia. Polar bears are a threatened species and a powerful symbol for conservation—yet these bears are fitted with metal muzzles and their trainer holds a metal rod. Photographer Kristen Luce and writer Natasha Daly traveled the world to learn about the suffering behind the scenes of wildlife tourism. “Our intention is not to shame tourists who have had these encounters,” Luce writes, “but to arm our readers with information that will help them identify potentially abusive situations for animals.” Photograph By Kristen Luce, National Geographic

Left: “A reminder to breathe,” writes photographer, filmmaker, and mountaineer Jimmy Chin of this striking image of the Middle Teton in Grand Teton National Park. Photograph By Jimmy Chin. Right: The Caldor Fire rips through a valley south of Lake Tahoe on August 29, 2021. Lynsey Addario documented the California wildfire season—the second worst on record—on assignment for National Geographic. Photograph By Lynsey Addario National Geographic

Andy Lewis crosses a slackline high above the valley floor in Moab, Utah. Photographer Renan Ozturk dedicated this photograph to his late friend Dean Potter, who first envisioned a free-solo image like this "moon walk," captured without digital manipulation within a single frame. After missing his first chance at the shot, Ozturk writes that he “stumbled through the night, arriving tired and bloody to the moonset/sunrise location on the opposite side of the towers.” Photograph By Renan Ozturk, National Geographic

[300apftsoldier]

“TRUST” You want someone you can trust above all else.

Loyalty

Duty

Respect

Selfless Service

Honor

Integrity

Personal Courage

I’m a professional driver that provides personal security. I’m looking for an individual or family work for, long term.

Michael E Spangler

Army National Guard Soldier

2010 to present

El Cajon, CA 92021

56M: PMOS: Religious Affairs NCO, PSD: Personal Safety Detail

and driver for our company Chaplain.

91B: SMOS: Light Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic, Combat Lifesaver,

Combatives training, Proficient with a sidearm and rifle.

WORK EXPERIENCE

United States Army National Guard

01/11/2022 to 02/19/2022

I was the NCOIC:

Non Commissioned Officer in charge. I was deployed to a COVID testing site.

I was placed in charge of, and provided safety for, three enlisted Soldier’s and 7 civilian workers.

Not to mention the countless civilian’s that came through to be tested daily.

United States Army National Guard

02/19/2022 to 06/30/2022

I became a Wild Land Firefighter for Cal Fire. I deployed, engaged, and controlled wild land fires with my team.

United States Army National Guard

08/30/2021 to 09/12/2021

I was the Squadron Commanders P.S.D: Personal Security Detail and driver during the Caldor, Dixie fires and in the vicinity of Lake Tahoe and Greenville. I was also the companies Sergeant at Arm’s as well.

I worked for a family as their personal security and driver.

12/2020 to 07/2021

United States Army National Guard (L.A. Protests 2020)

My mission consisted of protecting and serving my fellow brothers and sisters at arms plus, supporting the L.A.P.D. with their mission, not to mention the civilians/citizens of Inglewood California. My Soldier and I had to drive into Inglewood daily, to make our presence known and keep up public relations. 05/30/2020 to 06/09/2020

Allied Universal Security

Security Professional

I personally checked and verified all personnel, visitors, employees, staff, and company identification and equipment before entering the Entrance Control Points. I conducted employee/visitor baggage inspections. Which includes vehicle inspections as well. I interacted with foreign nationals and government/military/DOD employees on a daily basis. My duties placed me at different ECP’S throughout the week. I carried a sidearm.

09/2019 to 02/01/2020

JRC Consulting

Supervisor//Security Officer

I provide security for JRC'S clients, their property, their assets, and also sensitive material. Discretion and peace of mind are some of their highest priorities.

07/12/2019 to Present

Operation Enduring Freedom (Spartan Shield)

Sentry/Escort, checking/verifying identification, looking for contraband, and I.E.D.’S.

I personally searched/inspected over 3,000 military and civilian vehicles, plus personnel as well. We looking for, weapons, ammo, explosives, contraband, classified material, and I.E.D'S.

My role overseas was all sentry work, combined with escorting foreign nationals in and off the base. I was stationed in the watchtowers as well. We conducted surveillance/overwatch for all vehicles entering and exiting the base. I performed identification checks at every E.C.P. point I was assigned to. We carried sidearms and M-4's.

10/2017 – 09/2018

The Bodyguard Group of Beverly Hills

10/2016 – Present

Close Range International Inc.

07/2016 – Present

Presidential Limousine

Chauffeur and Safety

01/2013 – 01/2014

Private Security

Night Clubs and Bars - Pacific Beach, CA - 1993 to 1996

Canes/Hurricanes Nightclub, Tremors nightclub, Plum Crazy, Stingers,

PB Bar and Grill, U31, patron assistance/identification verification.

Private Security

Dignitary Protection International Agency - San Diego, CA - January 1997 to October 1999 Security/Surveillance, client, and civilian interaction.

Loomis Armored

Driver/Guard

1996 – 1997

Education

United States Army National Guard

08/19/2022 to 10/07/2022

I attended and graduated from:

The Institute for Religious Leadership.

United States Army National Guard

WLC: Warrior Leadership Course

(Sergeants School)

Rank: Sergeant

2018 to Present

A.S.C. Advanced Security Concepts

Comprehensive Security Training: BSIS

Baton, Conflict Resolution, Taser Training, Executive Protection Fundamentals, Sexual Harassment, BSIS Exposed Firearms Training, Handgun Shooting Tactics, Arrest and Control, Chemical Agents Training and CPR/AED certified.

United States Army

Structured Self Development

40 hour course

Rock Church

Community Chaplain

Class

California Career School 1100

Technology Circle Anaheim CA

92805 United States Other

Commercial Truck/Bus Driver

Santiago Canyon College

8045 E Chapman Ave Orange, 92869

School/Local 12/Union

Apprenticeship Program

Heavy Equipment Operator

Grossmont Community College

8800 Grossmont College Dr.

El Cajon CA 92020-1765 US

San Diego CCD - Miramar

College 3375 Camino Del Rio S

San Diego CA 92108-3807 US

Azusa Pacific University

San Diego Campus

Masters of Divinity Program

Groups and Affiliate’s

Aloha Church: 2019 to Present

Calvary Chapel (Football)

Competitive Flag Football. If you’re not bleeding or broken, you’re not winning.

2000 to Present

Commendations/Awards

Army Achievement Medal (2nd Award) // National Defense Medal (2nd Award)

Global War on Terrorism // Global War on Terrorism Service Medal //

Expeditionary Medal // Overseas Service Ribbon // Armed Forces Reserve Medal //

Army Service Ribbon // State Army Service Ribbon //

Army Physical Fitness Badge (10th Award)

[cavenewstimes]

How Do We Deal With Our Planet's Unprecedented Decline?

September 14, 2023 Throughout the world, scary “natural” fire, flood, and heat records were set this summer season. Flames from the Caldor Fire crown in trees at Echo Lake, Calif., in August 2021. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/ San Francisco Chronicle by means of Getty Images) This short article initially appeared at TomDispatch.comTo remain on top of essential short articles like these, register to…

[anniekoh]

wildfire

Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire www.elementalfilm.com

A documentary inviting us to reimagine our relationship with wildfire.

Elemental takes viewers on a journey with the top experts in the nation to better understand fire. We follow the harrowing escape from Paradise as the town ignited from wind-driven embers and burned within a few hours of the fire’s start. We visit fire labs where researchers torch entire houses to learn why some homes burn and others survive. We learn from Native Americans as they employ fire to benefit nature and increase community safety as they have for thousands of years. We follow researchers who work to understand the effects of climate on forests and the crucial role that natural forests play in storing vast amounts of carbon. Along the way we listen to people who have survived the deadliest fires to underscore the importance of this quest.

FAQs: https://www.elementalfilm.com/faqs

What did we witness with the 2020 and 2021 wildfires?

The 2020 and 2021 fires broke barriers in recent fire history. In 2020, fire burned across over a million acres in Oregon.  The 2021 Dixie fire became California’s largest fire and the first in recent history to cross the Sierra Nevada crest to the east. In August, the Caldor fire also spread east across the Sierra Nevada crest. In Oregon, the Bootleg fire became an intense fire that spread rapidly in heavily managed, relatively flat, tree plantations, unusual for an early July fire. The December 30th front range urban interface Marshall fire destroyed the largest number of structures in a Colorado fire.                                                           

Were the 2020-21 fires unusual?

No, they were a continuation of recent fire history. For proof, look at the 2020 Oregon Labor Day fires for similar, wind driven, drought influenced fires that burned through forests and communities (Beachie Creek), tree plantations (Holiday Farm), urban areas (Almeda), coastal communities (Echo Mountain).  

In 2022, we have seen similar wind and drought driven fires throughout the West and in Alaska, and loss of homes and communities.

[newswireml]

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Snow under burned trees from the Caldor fire. The new study shows that snow melted more rapidly during midwinter drought conditions within the footprints of wildfires. Credit: Anne Heggli, DRI The early pandemic years overlapped with some of California’s worst wildfires on record, creating haunting, orange-tinted skies and wide swaths of burned landscape. Some of the impacts of these fires are…

[ebook-2]

Forest fire https://youtu.be/QlygKJOvnt8 Once upon a time, in a vibrant and lush forest, there lived a majestic lion named Leo, a clever fox named Felix, and a tiny sparrow named Sammy. The forest was their home, filled with tall trees, colorful flowers, and a variety of animals.

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[nevver]

Watching it burn

[pcttrailsidereader]

Flee for Your Life? Wildfires transform hiking in California's mountains

This is an excerpt from an article published on August 21, 2022 in the Santa Cruz Sentinel. I wish so many of our posts were not related to wildfires but fires have become a critical issue in trip planning and trip safety. Make sure you read to the recommendations at the end of the piece.

By Ethan Baron

Andrew Schrock woke around midnight smelling smoke on a backpacking trip late last month in California’s far north.

“I heard what I thought was rain but was ashes on the tent,” said Schrock, 43.

Using a satellite-based device from the Klamath National Forest near the Oregon border, he texted family and friends back home to find out what was happening – but “no one was up.”

He’d had cell service a mile back along the iconic Pacific Crest Trail that stretches from Mexico to Canada, so he set out alone in the dark, got online, and discovered that the McKinney Fire – which has since grown to more than 60,000 acres, killed four people and required the rescue of 60 hikers from the California side of the trail – had ignited behind him to the south the previous afternoon.

Ask anyone who hikes in California’s mountains about wildfires and you’ll likely get an earful about canceled trips, detours, lung-burning smoke and, possibly, harrowing escapes. Backcountry travelers are increasingly finding themselves on the dangerous edge of a changing climate that is driving drought, parching forests, spreading tree-killing beetles and altering weather patterns. Add in heavy vegetation buildup from decades of fire suppression, and you have frequent, ferocious forest fires that scramble hikers’ best-laid plans and demand new tactics for staying safe.

Schrock, of Long Beach, flew from Ashland, Oregon, to Fresno and then caught a bus to Yosemite to get back into the Sierra Nevada and finish his vacation covering more ground and enjoying the wilderness on his multi-year quest to complete the Pacific Crest Trail, he recalled while taking a snack break beside Lower Echo Lake near Lake Tahoe.

Dallan Clancy of Belmont, 68, finishing up a day hike 100 miles west of Sacramento at Carson Pass, said he had to cancel an overnight trip last September in the southern Sierra because the U.S. Forest Service shut access to all but one of California’s national forests over fire risks, including what the agency called “fire behavior that is beyond the norm of our experience and models such as large, quick runs in the night.” Clancy said he and four friends are aiming to do the trip this year, “unless it gets really bad.”

“We’ve always made note of escape routes, but on this trip, we actually planned our escape routes. We wanted to know the routes we could take to get out to a road,” said Jack Daro, a Southern California musician taking a break at Carson Pass during a backpacking trek to Yosemite National Park.

Hikers in years past “just went and did whatever you wanted to do wherever you wanted to go,” Wilkinson said. But 2020 marked a transformation, with the million-acre August Complex Fire, the Creek Fire northeast of Fresno that led to helicopter evacuations of hundreds of people including hikers on the John Muir Trail, and other massive blazes launching California into the age of mega-fires, Wilkinson said.

Nine of California’s 20 biggest fires since 1932 have occurred in the past three years, torching 4.1 million acres, according to Cal Fire. This year’s five biggest blazes have burned 116,000 acres, and “we’re just now getting into peak wildfire season,” Wilkinson said.

U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Adrienne Freeman noted that fire can move much faster in today’s baked-crisp forests. “The window between OK and not OK,” Freeman said, “is becoming shorter and shorter.”

Backcountry journeyers who think seeing smoke but no flames means they’re fine may be mistaken, Wilkinson said. “Fire can move like a freight train, much faster than a person can run.”

Some hikers have dramatically changed the way they travel. Loetitia Saint-Jacques, 50, a Tahoe City veterinary technician, was on an overnight trip this month near South Lake Tahoe. Before the mega-fires, she and her companions would take long trips into deep wilderness. “We don’t go as remote now,” Saint-Jacques said. “Now it’s shorter trips. We do overnights, instead of five to eight days.”

Long-distance speed-hiker Ella Raff had multiple run-ins with wildfire and its fallout after embarking on the Pacific Crest Trail in June to walk from Mexico to Canada. Last month, the Washburn Fire in Yosemite shrouded her in smoke for two days. “I was just breathing heavy smoke 24/7. It’s not very fun,” said Raff, 29, of Portland. Farther north in California, traversing 85 miles of trail charred from last year’s nearly million-acre Dixie Fire left Raff covered in ash and dismayed by a “surreal” landscape with little animal life.

Soon after, she smelled smoke from the McKinney Fire. As she was nearing the Oregon border, authorities shut the trail ahead. More than 100 miles of the route remain closed, with the fire, which started July 29, now almost contained. Raff made her way to Portland, then to Washington to hike the trail southward from Canada.

Changing jumping-off points, routes, destinations, or timing to cope with uncertainty about fires is now routine for hikers in California. The Caldor Fire, which ravaged 220,000 acres southwest of Lake Tahoe last year from August to October, forced Truckee artist Danae Anderson, 63, to cancel three backpacking trips. “Everything was too smoky up here,” said Anderson, hiking beside Lower Echo Lake. She went to Yosemite instead.

Reckless target shooting by a father and son allegedly caused the Caldor Fire. The inferno’s scar stretches nearly 50 miles southwest of Echo Lakes in a swath up to 15 miles wide, much of it a blackened wasteland of lifeless trees, some downed, some standing without greenery, granite on many boulders shattered in places by the intense heat. More than 80 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail were closed from the fire’s start last August until early this year. Hikers passing through such areas may find water scarce, and standing dead trees can pose a deadly toppling hazard, said Matt Rump, a trail stewardship staffer for the Pacific Crest Trail Association.

Crews take down the most dangerous trees, but because there are so many dead, and they provide important wildlife habitat, officials accept some risk to hikers, under the calculus that “if you get whacked, it’s your time,” said Cheryl Bailey, 73, a volunteer for the Tahoe Rim Trail Association, as she walked along the 2 1/2 miles of the rim trail that run through the Caldor scar and that she’s been helping rebuild.

Some hikers console themselves with fire’s importance to forest health, but many of today’s blazes burn so hot they kill trees accustomed to lower-intensity fires.

In the Echo Chalet store where Schrock, who fled the McKinney Fire, bought snacks, cashier Georgia Sprague, 22, chatted with the trekkers whose ebbs and flows depend on fires and smoke. Many expressed urgency over climate change.

“They feel a lot of a push to get out,” she said, “and see the world before it burns up.”

Wildfire safety tips for hikers

Recommendations for staying safe while hiking in the age of mega-fires:

Check websites such as InciWeb for fire information and PurpleAir for air-quality information before, and if possible during, backcountry trips.

2. Give friends and family your itinerary, always know your location and pay close attention to your surroundings in case you need to retreat.

3. Know whether fires are prohibited where you’re going.

4. Carry paper maps in addition to any digital maps or apps.

5. Use cell phones and satellite-based devices to monitor weather, fires, wind, air quality and alerts such as Red Flag wildfire warnings, and to stay in close contact with people not in the wilderness who may have better access to weather and fire information. Many satellite-based messaging devices such as the popular Garmin inReach also act as rescue beacons; trekkers wishing to stay less connected may prefer personal locator beacons that are only for emergency rescue.

6. Pay attention to signs at trailheads and trail junctions.

7. Gather crowd-sourced fire and trail information from reliable websites and forums.

8. Carry an N95 mask in case of smoke.

9. Watch the sky for smoke, and use your nose to detect it.

[rjzimmerman]

Some photos from the Caldor fire

A snow gun sprays water at the Sierra-at-Tahoe resort. (Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)

Flames surround a chairlift at the Sierra-at-Tahoe resort. (Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)

Flames from the Caldor Fire rip across a hillside near South Lake Tahoe. (Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)

Flames consume multiple homes as the Caldor Fire pushes into South Lake Tahoe, Calif. (Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)

A unit of the U.S. Forest Service fighting the fire. (Paul Kitagaki Jr./Zuma Press Wire)

A spot fire from the Caldor Fire begins to establish itself off Highway 50 below the Echo Summit Monday afternoon. Elias Funez

A spot fire from the Caldor Fire establishes itself well in front of the head of the blaze Monday evening, causing issues for firefighters off of U.S. Highway 50 below the Echo Summit. Photo: Elias Funez

[cavenewstimes]

How Do We Deal With Our Planet's Unprecedented Decline?

September 14, 2023 Throughout the world, scary “natural” fire, flood, and heat records were set this summer season. Flames from the Caldor Fire crown in trees at Echo Lake, Calif., in August 2021. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/ San Francisco Chronicle by means of Getty Images) This post initially appeared at TomDispatch.comTo remain on top of essential posts like these, register to get the current…

[horsesandhockeyplayers]

Hey fam. So this is what I am currently dealing with.

This is the Caldor Fire.

The red zone is mandatory evacuation. Yellow is evac warning. I live near the blue dot to the west. The park I used to manage is going to burn.

This is the lake as of two hours ago.

This fire was 2500 acres at 8am and now at 4pm it’s FORTY NINE THOUSAND

[red-summers-death]

I’m gonna be doing some emergency commissions because I may lose my house to the Caldor Fire, you can support me by purchasing a commission or buying me a Ko-Fi here: https://t.co/FnRtPaXNCz anything will help!