The world's largest Costco is being planned for Fresno, California.Warriors already have new drama with Draymond Green and a young player.Gwyneth Paltrow is selling pot in California and it's going very, very well.Man featured in LA Times story dies in Death Valley amid 121-degree heat.Yosemite rangers give the green light for hikers to knock down cairns.Horoscope for Friday, 7/21/23 by Christopher Renstrom.I saw 'Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer' back to back.The California communities on the south end of the alpine resort region were evacuated and other towns across the state line in Nevada are on notice to be ready to flee. Two gondolas are suspended on cable as a police vehicle patrols the empty streets of evacuated South Lake Tahoe. Wednesday night, the weather service said.īoats float in the water away from a dock in South Lake Tahoe on Tuesday as the Caldor Fire approaches Lake Tahoe. Red flag warnings are in effect for all of South Lake Tahoe through at least 11 p.m. The fire was burning in the forest just outside of South Lake Tahoe and heading east toward Heavenly Ski Resort as of Wednesday morning. Hong captured the eerie quiet scene of South Lake Tahoe as the wildfire raged mere miles from the city's border. The beaches along Lake Tahoe stood deserted, with boats docked in the water or stacked up without a soul in sight.Īssociated Press photographer Jae C. Motels did not have any guests, and their parking lots sat empty. Seats set up along Highway 50 near the casinos at the Nevada border awaited customers nowhere in sight. Shopping plazas that would be jam-packed were empty. “It sounds like we won’t be opening because of the fire,” he said.By Tuesday, South Lake Tahoe resembled a ghost town. The Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort is beloved for its unpretentious and comparatively affordable winter prices. Gillespie, a mechanic at Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort, said that unlike the northern shore of Lake Tahoe, which is dotted with mansions and second homes, the area currently under threat houses blue-collar workers who make their living at the casinos and ski resorts that make the area so popular. The last two wildfires that ripped through populated areas near Tahoe were the Angora Fire that destroyed more than 200 homes in 2007 and the Gondola Fire in 2002 that ignited near a chairlift at Heavenly Mountain Resort.Īt the evacuation center in Gardnerville, Joe Gillespie said he, his girlfriend and her son left their home in Meyers south of South Lake Tahoe on Sunday, bringing clothes, picture frames and collectibles like Hot Wheels toys from the 1960s that Gillespie’s mother gave him. More than 600 structures have been destroyed, and at least 33,000 more were threatened. South Lake Tahoe resident Lorie Major was at the grocery store when she got the alert on her phone. Outside, evacuees who had stayed in tents sorted through ramen noodles and plastic bags of clothes and keepsakes. Additional sites were open at a park in Carson City, the Reno Sparks Convention Center and a rodeo event center in Dayton and Lyon County fairgrounds in Yerington.Īt 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. “This is serious, folks.”Įvacuation shelters at community centers in Carson City and Douglas County were at capacity, officials said Tuesday. “I’m standing here and I’m getting all ash particulates on my jacket, even,” the governor said. 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) away. Steve Sisolak urged residents to be prepared, saying there was no timeline for when evacuations might be ordered. In all, Harrah’s, Harveys Lake Tahoe Casino, the Hard Rock and Montbleu Resort have more than 2,200 hotel rooms. Hotels are housing evacuees, fire crews and other emergency personnel.
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