That drive usually takes about an hour, but Von Lackum said she was on the road for five. Police came by and said ‘Please, ma’am, you know, you’re kind of the last one here,’ ” Von Lackum said. She evacuated her home near Stateline, Calif., due to the threat of the Caldor Fire. KUNR Public Radio Gael Von Lackum tried to decompress after her first night at the American Red Cross evacuation site at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center in Reno, Nev., on Sept. She lives near Stateline and left after law enforcement came to her door. She was sitting in her car that’s packed to the brim with her belongings. “We left all the memories all around the lake, you know, ’cause I used to take my kids to snowboard, we took them to the beach in the summer,” Mora said.Īlso in the parking lot of the convention center was Gael Von Lackum. But for him, leaving Tahoe was heartbreaking. Along with them, he grabbed photographs, medicine and important documents before leaving South Lake Tahoe. When we spoke in the parking lot, Mora was still struggling over where to go next with his family and pets. You know what I mean? Like, they’re our family,” Mora said. “We were bummed out because we’re not gonna leave them. But he didn’t make it inside because the convention center doesn’t allow pets. He was with his family members and two dogs - a pit bull and chihuahua. These are our neighbors, but you don’t realize what that means until something like this,” Lavars said.Īlso relocated from the Carson City site was 37-year-old Jose Mora. “I brought my son to Reno to get his suit for his proms, you know, those kind of things. Lavars said the help she received in the last few days has made her see the community in a new light. “Because it’s easier for us to take care of as many people as possible under one roof, as opposed to caring for people in one, two, three, four locations at once,” Steve Walsh with the American Red Cross said.Ībout 90% of the work is done by volunteers. On Wednesday, the American Red Cross moved all of the evacuees from the two Carson City centers and some from the Gardnerville site to the Reno-Sparks Convention Center. Barely a day in, the duo was uprooted again. 1, 2021.īut they didn’t get to stay for long. KUNR Public Radio A sign outside the American Red Cross evacuation center at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center in Reno, Nev., for wildfire evacuees relocated from the Carson City sites on Sept. “The only thing everyone in the room had in common was that we were all evacuated from South Lake Tahoe,” Bloom said. “When you’re in a gymnasium with 100 people, who are all kind of wound up from all of this, and you lay eyes on somebody that you know, and you know when they see you, it’s like a big drink of water when you’re dying of thirst,” Lavars said. After the ordeal, they described what it was like to see a familiar face. It was really a bit terrifying leaving in the ambulance when I could see all the smoke out the back window,” Lavars said.Īfter arriving at the Carson City Community Center, Lavars ran into her neighbor Steve Bloom. I raised three children in South Lake Tahoe. So they called for an ambulance to transport her to Carson City.
When law enforcement knocked on her door to get her to leave, she didn’t have a way out. She has mobility issues and doesn’t have transportation. It’s been quite a journey for Shelly Lavars. Many of them landed across the border in Nevada, in communities like Carson City, Gardnerville and Reno. Some have had to move around to more than one shelter so far this week.īy Monday, tens of thousands of people in South Lake Tahoe, California, were forced to leave their homes. The American Red Cross has set up several evacuation centers in Northern Nevada to help evacuees fleeing the Caldor and Dixie Fires.
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