Some spokesman from the Forestry Dept who was being interviewed on TV yesterday was saying that this was the fastest moving fire he had personally seen. I haven't heard anyone actually say it, but maybe the speed is why so many homes were destroyed early on, before firefighters could get in position to protect the homes?

You don't normally think of Lake Tahoe being a wilfire prone area, but it just goes to show the extent of the drought conditions in the West this year. Seems like wilfire season is basically year-round for the foreseeable future.