**Trail Fire Update**
As of 9pm, the fire activity has greatly diminished and Fire and Law Command staff are calling for NO evacuations tonight. The evacuation center at Golden Sierra High School will be closing shortly as no one has shown up.
All El Dorado County Sheriff Office OES staff will be in very early tomorrow and we will monitor the fire throughout the day.
We wish our firefighter brothers and sisters a very productive and safe night.
Lt Jim Byers
For Immediate Release
Lieutenant Jim Byers
Trail Fire
The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office is in unified command with Fire and we are monitoring the progress of the Trail Fire as it burns into El Dorado County.
As a precaution, we have established an evacuation center at the Golden Sierra High School at 5101 Garden Valley Road, in Garden Valley. If anyone wishes to evacuate, there will be resources to assist you at this site.
Currently there are no evacuation orders and any further information will posted via our PIO Blog at pio.edso.org/ and on our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/eldoradosheriff/
For Immediate Release
Lieutenant Jim Byers
Lake Tahoe Boating Fatality
On June 25th, 2016, at 11:35 am, the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office was notified of an apparent drowning in the El Dorado County portion of Lake Tahoe, East of Meeks Bay. The reporting party had found an unresponsive man in the water with an unoccupied personal watercraft drifting nearby. The reporting party was transporting the victim to the Cave Rock boat ramp for medical treatment.
A boating accident investigation was immediately started, and as the investigation was underway, Boat Patrol Deputies learned the man had been pronounced dead by paramedics at the Cave Rock boat ramp.
At this time there is an active accident investigation to determine if the operation of the personal watercraft was the cause of the man’s death. Identification of the victim is pending notification of next of kin.
Anyone with any information can call (530)621-6600.