tourists remained on the casino floor of the montbleu resort casino and spa the state board that controls gaming said that casino regulators were monitoring operations at the four largest gambling properties in the cityhotels are housing evacuees fire crews and other emergency personnel in all harrahs harveys lake tahoe casino the hard rock and montbleu resort have more than 2200 hotel roomsnevada gov steve sisolak urged residents to be prepared saying there was no timeline for when evacuations might be ordered at a news conference in carson city he noted that ash was falling on him even though the fire was about 20 miles 32 kilometers awayim standing here and im getting all ash particulates on my jacket even the governor said this is serious folkshours later residents in parts of douglas county under an evacuation warning were ordered to leave although casinos were excludedat the douglas county community senior center in gardnerville people had their temperature checked before entering a gymnasium of cots set up by the red cross outside evacuees who had stayed in tents sorted through ramen noodles and plastic bags of clothes and keepsakessouth lake tahoe resident lorie major was at the grocery store when she got the alert on her phonei had to tell myself ok lorie get it together its time to go she saidshe put on headphones turned on the grateful deads fire on the mountain and walked home to an empty apartment complex already vacated by neighbors she and her mini australian shepherd koda took a 20mile 32kilometer taxi ride from her south lake tahoe apartment to a hotel in minden nevadaa firefighter injured while battling the caldor fire last weekend was expected to be hospitalized for a month after undergoing skin grafting surgery richard gerety iii of patterson california suffered thirddegree burns over 20 of his body the modesto bee reported despite the very active fire year there have not been many injuries or deaths among firefighters or residentsmore than 15000 firefighters were battling dozens of california blazes with help from out of state crews climate change has made the west much warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive scientists saythe threat of fire is so widespread that the us forest service announced monday that all national forests in california would be closed until sept 17crews are battling the dixie the secondlargest wildfire in state history at 1281 square miles 3317 square kilometers the weeksold fire was burning about 65 miles 105 kilometers north of the lake tahoearea blaze and prompting new evacuation orders and warnings this weekthe caldor fire has scorched nearly 312 square miles 808 square kilometers since breaking out aug 14 it was 18 containedmore than 600 structures have been destroyed and at least 33000 more were threatenedat the evacuation center in gardnerville joe gillespie said he his girlfriend and her son left their home in meyers south of south lake