[jyl]

We’re probably most of us following this fire. So most of the special mountain places my kids and their fellow camp staff go to each summer have burned. I think the fire ran through Strawberry today. The fire is pretty much at the ridgeline above Echo Lake and looks set to run over Echo Peak and take Echo Camp where they’ve worked the last many summers. Myers is evacuated, to the south Kirkwood ski resort is threatened. When the fire gets into the more urbanized parts of the basin, with structures and wide roads and big parking lots and city water systems, I’m not sure if that makes it better or worse for firefighting. South Lake Tahoe is only 22,000 population but has the buildings and infrastructure of a much larger city.