The good news on the King Fire, which has burned almost 90,000 acres of Sierra Nevada forests west of Lake Tahoe since it started Sept. 13: The force of nearly 7,500 fire personnel fighting the blaze, aided by several days of cool, damp weather have achieved 35 percent containment. The bad news: Much warmer, drier and much windier weather is sweeping across much of the northern Sierra, including the fire zone. Find out more via KQED News
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 22:00:01 +0000