Thursday, June 28, 2007

Wildfire Burns near South Lake Tahoe

Since Sunday afternoon there are wildfires nearby South Lake Tahoe. Sum up it is awful and very sad for the people who live there as for the wildlife. Especially because it was caused by human activity?!!
Unfortunately we supposed to go there this weekend for a short vacation. The Emerald Bay SP is actually pretty close to the active burning area. We’ve already received some warning messages from the CA State Parks en this is what I've just found at their website:
There is a large wildfire burning in the South Lake Tahoe area . While the fire is not burning in a state park, major roads leading to one park are being used by emergency crews and are closed to non-emergency traffic coming into the Tahoe Basin, including Highway 89 in South Lake Tahoe. Highway 50 is Open. Highway 89 is now closed from Emerald Bay to Highway 50 to all but emergency traffic. Located along Highway 89 on the southwestern side of the lake, Emerald Bay State Park has three main visitor sections: the Eagle Point campground, the Vikingsholm historic mansion and the boat-in campground. All were closed to visitors last night, with campers evacuated from the two campgrounds. (http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=506)
I guess this is the end of our vacation at the Emerald Bay. Considering the people who live there we are not the ones who should be sad at the moment.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hey Jana,

Love your comments, I'm just catching up!! Hope the ants aren't making highways in your house!!! They are
annoying little critters.

Love Peg

De Bauermannetjes said...

Hoi Jana,

Heb je zin om een keer langs te komen voor koffie of thee met zelfgebakken eierkoeken?

Groetjes Mirjam