The two also tried to warn other campers in the area to get out. "Even when the calls dropped, kept calling back and giving the location fo the fire," Reichel said. The pair then called 911 to report the flames. "We dispute that even were the persons that started the fire," Reichel said.ĭavid and Travis Smith were riding a dune buggy when they first spotted the fire, the attorney said. The North Tahoe Fire Protection District provides the highest possible level of fire and life safety, rescue and emergency medical service, fire prevention. Reichel said that the two men are not accused of starting the fire intentionally but of somehow sparking the first flames accidentally, a claim they denied. It was the second blaze on record to cross the Sierra Nevada mountains. For days, it threatened to decimate South Lake Tahoe, causing thousands of people to evacuate. The small community of Grizzly Flats was decimated, and the fire tore through the forest above the idyllic Tahoe Basin. The Caldor fire burned a total of 221,835 acres and destroyed more than 1,000 structures, including hundreds of homes as it burned for 67 days. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, a spokesperson for the US Forest Service's El Dorado National Forest unit told BuzzFeed News. The blaze has been burning toward Lake Tahoe from the southwest along California Highway 50, climbing over a Sierra Nevada summit and descending into the. Savannah Broddrick, an assistant for the district attorney, declined to comment on Reichel’s statements, telling BuzzFeed News Wednesday night that the office was not responding to questions on how the fire started. The El Dorado County District Attorney's office charged the pair on Thursday with three counts of recklessly causing a fire and two weapons charges, all felonies, according to court documents provided to BuzzFeed News. The two are accused of reckless arson, but Reichel said they actually tried to warn people in the area about the flames as the fire began to spread rapidly. A wildfire that has been burning for two weeks just south of Lake Tahoe in California quickly expanded over the weekend, jumping a highway and. David Scott Smith, 66, and Travis Shane Smith, 32, were currently in custody in El Dorado County Jail, their attorney Mark J. As a member of the Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team, Tahoe RCD collaborates with local fire districts, public land management agencies, and neighborhoods to manage.
Two men were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of sparking a massive California wildfire that destroyed hundreds of homes and threatened Lake Tahoe.īut an attorney for the father and son told BuzzFeed News the two men are not only innocent, but they were among the first to report the flames to authorities.
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