Billionaire’s playground on California border gets secret weapon in fight against wildfires: ‘The worm’

Billionaire playgrounds get all the best toys. Incline Village, the billionaire-packed Nevada enclave attracting wealthy Californians fleeing the state’s proposed wealth tax has a new line of defense against another threat: fires. The North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District is deploying remote-controlled machines to chomp through potentially dangerous vegetation around the ritzy lakeside village as part of an unusually named wildfire mitigation and prevention effort dubbed “The Worm.” Thanks in part to Nevada’s lack of individual income tax, the bougie nabe just minutes from California’s border has emerged as a magnate for deep-pocketed transplants, attracting the likes of Oracle founder Larry Ellison and Google co-founder Sergey Brin to Lake Tahoe. Sergey Brin and Gerelyn Gilbert-Soto a