Closer to the lake the fire was more sedate in the early hours of Wednesday, burning more gently than it had the night before, when it forced its way into the basin.
The fire has a ways to travel before it reaches the lakeshore. A golf course, an airstrip, a timber merchant’s roadside lot crowded with neatly stacked logs and, perhaps more ominously, a propane storage facility — all separating the flames from the boundary line of South Lake Tahoe, the most populous city on the lake.
Given the erratic — and often terrifying — behavior of California’s megafires in recent years it seems anyone’s guess when and whether the fire will reach the lake.
Firefighters on Tuesday night were making a stand, calculating that they might be able to stop the flames at a creek along Highway 50, the road that wends down from the mountains toward South Lake Tahoe.
Minutes before midnight hand crews were clearing brush by the lights of their headlamps. A cacophony of chain saws, generators and pickaxes striking the soil competed with the rumbling of diesel engines of fire trucks lined up along the side of the road.
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