Lake Tahoe ablaze

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Devastating Tahoe blaze worst in a century
By Mike Zapler and Rodney Foo
Mercury News
Article Last Updated: 06/25/2007 07:29:05 PM PDT

The scene at the Lake Tahoe Community College was just as devastating as the 2,500-acres of charred forest that lie south of the lake's famed crystal blue waters. One by one, residents who had come to learn if their homes had survived Tahoe's worst blaze in 100 years walked away with tears in their eyes.

A woman in jeans and tank top sobbed into a cell phone, her voice quaking.
"Our neighbor's house is standing - ours is gone," she said into the phone. "Pictures of the girls, my birth certificate, our money, my jewelry, it's all gone. All I have are the clothes on my back. We got the dogs out but we couldn't even find the cat." http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_6226144

also:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tahoefire26jun26,0,7558576.story?coll=la-home-center

Please keep Tahoe in your prayers or thoughts or whatever...its my former hometown and I have family/friends living there...many many homes are gone and I've been told its hard to breath because of the smoke and you can't even see the moutains or the lake...