Highway 50 Reopens In High Country After Caldor Fire; Rebuild Just Beginning For Many Residents

POLLOCK PINES (CBS13) — Highway 50 is backmost unfastened successful the Sierra Tuesday greeting aft being closed for weeks due to the fact that of the Caldor Fire.

The roadworthy was reopened astatine 8 a.m. The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office is handing retired information and assistance accusation astatine the Fresh Pond Chevron presumption adjacent Pollock Pines for radical returning location for the archetypal time.

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Dozens of residents and spot owners were temporarily allowed done the closure connected Monday to inspect their homes for immoderate damage.

“A batch of anxiousness waiting to get up here,” 1 nonmigratory said. “It’s going to beryllium bully to yet spell backmost home.”

Highway 50 reopened to postulation betwixt Meyers and Kyburz astatine 8:02 this greeting aft being closed for a period owed to the #CaldorFire. Be alert for crews moving successful the area. @CountyElDorado @ElDoradoSheriff @EldoradoNF @CHPPlacerville @CHPSouthLake @CaltransDist10 @CALFIREAEU pic.twitter.com/dDDrd5FLDP

— Caltrans District 3 (@CaltransDist3) September 21, 2021

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People returning location are asked to support an oculus retired for histrion and inferior crews who whitethorn inactive beryllium moving successful the area. Further, those who person properties connected US Forest Service onshore are being told to interaction the Forest Service for entree details.

Now that firefighters person a grip connected the Caldor Fire, the clean-up process begins.

The Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) is combing done the hard-hit municipality of Grizzly Flats. Their occupation is to dispose of immoderate unsafe worldly that burned successful the occurrence – similar batteries, utilized oil, and propane tanks.

“If you inhale those asbestos fibers, it tin origin problems successful your lungs, it tin springiness you cancer, it tin origin ungraded contamination,” said Ivan Rodriguez, an biology idiosyncratic with the DTSC.

It’s a process they accidental tin instrumentality weeks.

“They are indispensable steps successful allowing for these spot owners to determination connected and fig retired what they’re going to bash with their properties,” Rodriguez said.

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DTSC crews volition cleanable up the ash and debris, past residents tin determine whether they volition rebuild.

CBS13 Staff