Evacuees anxiously follow course of California fire near Lake Tahoe

CARSON CITY, Nevada: Red Cross officials who have turned a Carson City recreation center into a shelter have tried to make evacuees from the wildfire raging near Lake Tahoe as comfortable as possible.

Cots are placed at COVID-safe distances from each other on the gym floor, each topped with a crisp white blanket. Urns of coffee wait at the entrance. But it is information that is most craved by those staying at the rec center in western Nevada and others who have found their own shelter after some 50,000 people were given evacuation orders because of the Caldor fire across the state line in California.