Jeff Marsolais, Director of Eldorado National Forest, said that firefighters dealing with the Kaldor fire are now prioritized over available resources because the fire has become “in terms of value-at-risk priority, the country’s ’S first fire.” Burning just 11 miles southwest of the Lake Tahoe area, local officials said they were worried that the fire would spread. 



"The speed of this fire has surpassed us," Masole said at a community briefing on Tuesday night. "We emptied the resource cabinet, and the local fire chiefs in Amador and El Dorado counties sent out all the resources they could provide, and it continued to surpass us no matter how many people we tried to acquire."


Cal Fire reported that as of Wednesday morning, the Caldor fire had burned 126,182 acres, accounting for only 11%. The fire has damaged 461 homes, 34 buildings, 11 commercial properties and 165 small buildings, and more than 17,000 buildings are still on possible roads. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Fire officials hope to fully control it by August 31.