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22K full time residents in SLT, despite the city being sized for 100K+ in tourist season. Reading ppl sat in the jams for 4+ hours to go 5+ miles, but that’s lot better than I’d feared.

Just saw a reporter’s video driving through the Echo summit area. Incredibly, Echo Camp appears mostly intact, the main building and all the structures visible from the road are still there, most of the private cabins on that road survived, Echo Lake lodge, marina and the cabins there survived, Echo Summit lodge survived. Video didn’t show any significant remaining fire activity and lots of firefighters and trucks in the area. Fire damage appears to have been mercifully patchy up on Echo. So far - don’t know if another wave of fire coming or if the fire front has passed. Looks really windy up there so fingers still tightly crossed.

Downslope of Hwy 50, Strawberry structures all or almost all saved per reports. Sierra At Tahoe ski resort all structures saved, they used snow making machines to fight the fire. But reports lot of cabins burned around ski resort and up the south side of Echo. Going further west, not heard anything about Kyburz but mapping showed fire front overran it some days ago.

In the camp, I know that the maintenance staff - my son’s team this summer - always kept the brush and debris cleared as much as they could, and like I mentioned the city had crews of Parks and FD up there cutting and clearing fuel in advance of the fire’s arrival.

Seeing more news video of Echo. Still hotspots burning, firefighters actively working them. Not out of the woods but so far the news is better than feared.