Incline Village wasn’t burning—at least not yet. On Saturday, May 30, the town held a citywide fire drill meant to rehearse what everyone should do if a catastrophic wildfire threatened the town’s 9,000 residents. Ever since the 2007 Angora fire, a blaze that burned 200 homes in South Lake Tahoe, Brown and other officials have been aware that a fire of similar size could cost Incline Village half its homes. And, given that the Angora fire cost $11.7 million to contain, Brown also knows that fires in the region demand a swift interagency response—the kind of thing that’s hard to coordinate without practice.
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