Fire officials attribute some 30 years of creating defensible space around Jenkinson Lake helped keep the Caldor Fire from destroying Pollock Pines or jumping surrounding stretches of Highway 50.

The Cal Fire Amador-El Dorado Unit initially reported at 4:40 p.m. a vegetation fire in the area Cable Road and Badger Hill Road, about five miles west of Pollock Pines and north of U.S. Highway 50.

POLLOCK PINES, Calif. — The El Dorado County Fire Protection District worked Wednesday evening to put out a fire in Pollock Pines that burned two homes.

POLLOCK PINES, Calif. – The Caldor fire continued extreme growth for a second straight night in El Dorado County, with winds rocketing the fire dangerously close to well-populated communities ...

The King Fire is burning off of King of the Mountain Road, about three miles northeast of Pollock Pines. It was first reported Saturday around 4:30 p.m. and has grown to 3,900 acres, a little more ...

POLLOCK PINES, Calif. (KGO) -- The Caldor Wildfire is burning out of control in El Dorado County, prompting new evacuation orders along Highway 50. Right now, the fire is nearly 54,000 acres ...

The King Fire was still raging out of control in Pollock Pines, 60 miles east of Sacramento, on Wednesday evening, as more than 2,500 firefighters battled the blaze, which grew by thousands of ...

POLLOCK PINES, CA - SEPTEMBER 17: A firefighter monitors the King Fire on September 17, 2014 in Pollock Pines, California. The King fire is threatening over 1,600 homes in the forested area about ...

POLLOCK PINES, Calif. (KTXL) — A generator sparked a house fire Tuesday as it was being used by a Pollock Pines couple who lost power during Pacific Gas and Electric’s preemptive outages.

King Fire in Pollock Pines More Than Doubles to 70,000 Acres By Lisa Fernandez • Published September 18, 2014 • Updated on September 18, 2014 at 1:59 pm ...

Residents of Pollock Pines, California, were told to evacuate as the Caldor Fire burned in El Dorado County. The wildfire flared up Monday to over 6,500 acres.

POLLOCK PINES, Calif. (KGO) -- The Caldor Fire burning in El Dorado County south of Pollock Pines exploded in size Monday night into Tuesday prompting mandatory evacuations and destroying several ...