https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/09/03/caldor-fire-when-residents-and-visitors-might-be-able-to-return-to-south-lake-tahoe/

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE — As firefighters gain more ground on the Caldor Fire, officials are starting to discuss plans for allowing thousands of residents forced to flee the wildfire that has raged through the forests southwest of Lake Tahoe, engulfing several small communities in its wake, to return home.

But the area will remain a hazy ghost town — save for a steady stream of firefighters, emergency personnel and wandering bears and coyotes — at least through Labor Day weekend.