With zero containment and strong winds in the forecast, he said, “we are not out of the woods yet.” _Īssociated Press reporter Haleluya Hadero contributed to this report from Atlanta. “I was stressed and terrified at the idea of losing everything I’ve spent my life working for.” “Yesterday was extremely emotional, as we were at the mercy of the wind and the unpredictability of the fire,” Peel told The Associated Press.
Ryan Peel said firefighters created some defensive space around his slot machine distribution warehouse in Chilcoot, but he was worried the erratic winds could still put his business in the line of fire.
A fire crew from Truckee tweeted a video of firefighters dragging hoses as they ran alongside a moving truck that was dodging the flames. The fire has burned at least 45 square miles (117 square kilometers) and triggered evacuation orders for sparsely populated communities along State Route 395 by the California-Nevada border, said Tahoe National Forest spokesman Joe Flannery.įirefighters aided by water-dropping helicopters and air tankers faced “extreme fire behavior,” he said, and worked through the night to extinguish spot fires and protect threatened structures.Īt one point, the fast-moving fire jumped a highway and came dangerously close to a fire truck. Isolated thunderstorms will be possible everywhere in the Bay Area and along the. When high winds collided with the fire and whipped it into the air, a spectacular tornado-shaped spiral of flames was formed. The European model’s lightning flash density averaged out for Tuesday afternoon. Unsettling weather triggered an unusual warning by the weather service of a fire-induced tornado at an out-of-control forest fire that broke out north of Lake Tahoe on Saturday afternoon.Ī massive fire cloud known as a pyrocumulonimbus formed over the fire, which started east of the town of Loyalton, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) west of Reno, Nevada. “This is probably the most widespread and violent summer thunderstorm event in memory for Bay Area, & it’s also one of the hottest nights in years,” tweeted Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. Wind gusts reached 75 mph (121 kph), according to the National Weather Service, which said another round of lightning may develop early Monday. The National Weather Service on Tuesday said there will be enough moisture and lift in the air above the Bay Area late in the night and into early Wednesday for a slight.
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