Caldor Fire Update: Blaze ‘Just Simply Outpaced Us'; Burn Zone Grows To 122,980 Acres With 11 Percent Containment

From CBS San Francisco:

POLLOCK PINES (CBS SF) — Like many residents in the Sierra foothills, San Francisco winemakers Amy and Aaron Bryan find themselves in a battle with the smoke and flames of the raging Caldor Fire.

By Wednesday morning, the massive fire burning west of the Lake Tahoe Basin had grown to 122,980 acres with just 11% containment. It has burned several hundred homes and ravaged the community of Grizzly Flats.

Thousands of other residents are anxiously watching the billowing smoke clouds on the horizon.

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