Campfires Banned at 87 Campgrounds
A 10,500-acre forest fire burning west of Lake Tahoe prompted the Tahoe National Forest to ban campfires at all 87 of its developed campgrounds Friday.
The ban on campfires and barbecues is the first in seven years in the forest, which stretches over 1.2 million acres from the edge of the Tahoe Basin up to Sierra City and down to Foresthill.
The ban comes as 2,000 firefighters and personnel battle the Star fire, which burned for the seventh day Friday along the Middle Fork of the American River and the Eldorado and Tahoe national forests about 25 miles from Lake Tahoe.
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