https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/30/its-out-of-control-caldor-fire-prompts-south-lake-tahoe-evacuation-traffic-gridlock/ > Marley Reel and Bill Kennessey stood outside their neighboring South Lake Tahoe businesses Monday afternoon debating how to get out of town as they peered out on gridlocked traffic on Highway 50 that hadn’t moved for an hour. > Both men had readied evacuation bags weeks ago but hoped the flames from the growing Caldor Fire wouldn’t get close enough that they would have to use them.