California fire advances toward Lake Tahoe after destroying hundreds of homes
August 25, 2021 at 14:35 PM EDT
The Caldor Fire was less than 20 miles east of the lake that straddles the California-Nevada state line. The fire was eating its way through rugged timberlands and was "knocking on the door" of the Lake Tahoe basin, California’s state fire chief Thom Porter warned this week.
