Visitors Urged To Stay Away From Tahoe Over Caldor Fire Worries, Hazardous Air Quality

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE (CBS13) — While South Lake Tahoe is not nether immoderate evacuation informing astatine the moment, officials are urging visitors to enactment distant owed to the menace of the Caldor Fire.

The metropolis has declared a section exigency and activated its Emergency Operations Center.

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Lake Tahoe Unified School District is besides postponing the commencement of the twelvemonth until aft Labor Day, citing the occurrence and hazardous aerial quality.

Tahoe and the surrounding country has been shrouded successful fume for weeks now. On Friday, the Air Quality Index rated the country arsenic hazardous – portion person to the occurrence lines, it was disconnected the charts. Near Diamond Springs, the AQI was astatine 1527 – and 1727 successful Camino arsenic of precocious Friday morning.

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Residents of the Tahoe basin person been watching the Caldor Fire intimately arsenic the evacuation country expands. As of Friday, evacuation warnings are present close up to Echo Summit.

The Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority has urged tourists to postpone immoderate question plans to the country for the clip being.

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Further, Red Hawk Casino announced connected Friday that it would beryllium closing retired of an abundance of caution done Monday greeting owed to the atrocious aerial quality.

CBS13 Staff