Elk Fire Prompts Evacuations of Town’s Northern Subdivisions
Faced with flood last month and continuing wildfire concern — and as yet no Biblical prospect of swarms of locusts — Lake City residents and visitors continue to make the best of an at-times challenging situation in the wake of the Elk Fire. The southern boundary of the wildfire is now estimated to be roughly a mile and a half to the north/northwest of Lake City at Larson Creek.As of mid-week this week and following 0.2” rain which dampened grass and brush and slowed the growth of the fire, the expanded fire now static encompassing a total of 7,404.8 acres with 35 percent containment. Containment refers to the portion of the fireline reasonably considered to be controlled, with 35 percent of the fire’s perimeter line, largely to the northwest and northern Alpine Plateau Road.Notable are the residents of 42 homes and associated structures to the immediate north of Lake City in San Juan Springs and San Juan Hills Subdivision on the west side of Highway 149 who evacuated from their homes last Friday, August 7, due to southerly expansion of the Elk Fire.Highly populated San Juan Springs and San Juan Hills are at the southern end of Zone HNS-E003A which
