Firefighters Report Progress Against The Flames Near Lake Tahoe

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Firefighters reported progress Wednesday in the battle to save communities on the south end of Lake Tahoe from an approaching forest fire after the stiff winds they had feared failed to materialize in the California-Nevada alpine region.

"We lucked out a little bit yesterday with some of the winds that didn't come up quite as hard as we expected them to," Tim Ernst, an operations section chief, told firefighters in a morning briefing.

An inversion layer, a cap of warm air over cooler air, then developed in the early morning hours "that put a real damper on things, slowed a lot of growth," Ernst said. "So a lot of opportunity to make a lot of progress last night."