Wildfire may come earlier this year

Wildfire may come earlier this year

LAKE TAHOE, Nev. / Calif. – Fire has already struck in the high-elevation west after a winter that has fire experts holding their breath as seasons change. At the end of March, the Dry Fork Fire hit the Uintah mountains in Utah at a similar elevation (7,000 feet) to the Tahoe Basin, where, “…typically this time of year,” Basil Newmerzhycky said in Great Basin Seasonal Outlook report, “fire would be unimaginable.” That’s because these areas would…