The State - News from Aug. 2, 1987

Firefighters encircled a forest fire south of Lake Tahoe that scorched 6,600 acres and left a fourth of the families in the small Sierra Nevada community of Woodfords homeless. “We’re down to the drudgery now of the final mopping up,” said National Forest Service fire official John Russell. The fire, which broke out in a steep canyon south of Lake Tahoe and west of the Nevada border, destroyed 24 homes, said Alpine County Sheriff Larry Kuhl. Six other homes were nearly destroyed and an additional 100 homes, garages, barns or other buildings suffered at least minor damage, Kuhl said. Firefighters saved a mobile home park and other buildings on the blaze’s southern flank. Kuhl said the final damage estimate “will probably go way over $2 million.”