Searching for the cause

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Officials do not yet know how the fire started. ‘It potentially could have been an illegal campfire, but I don’t know that for a fact,’ said Sgt. Don Atkinson of the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department. ‘There’s no evidence yet as to what caused it, and it could have been a number of things. There’s a fire warning every day in the summer in Tahoe, and it’s pretty much posted as high fire danger, especially in those areas, because it’s very thickly wooded.’

-- Tami Adbollah