Air quality around South Lake Tahoe is deteriorating as the Caldor Fire is moving closer - leaving residents and tourists bracing to evacuate.

Despite evacuation orders due to the raging Caldor Fire, some South Lake Tahoe residents say they're going to wait it out a little while longer.

Caldor, California’s third-biggest wildfire of 2021, began on Aug. 14 of that year just east of Omo Ranch; it burned 221,835 ...

THANK YOU! Hundreds of South Lake Tahoe residents gave a heroes' send-off to firefighters who battled the massive Caldor Fire.

Fire crews have upped containment on the destructive Caldor Fire, burning in El Dorado County, California, and looming west of the Lake Tahoe Basin.

Meanwhile, the Caldor Fire spread to within 20 miles (32 kilometers) southwest of Lake Tahoe, eating its way through rugged timberlands and “knocking on the door” of the basin that straddles ...

A firefighter monitors the Caldor Fire burning near structures in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., Monday, Aug. 30, 2021.

RELATED: Changing winds provide hope in Caldor Fire battle One evacuee, a student from Thailand who is working and studying in South Lake Tahoe, says she paid $800 for a taxi ride to a Reno hotel ...

Four years ago, the Caldor Fire burned 221,835 acres in El Dorado, Alpine and Amador counties, as it climbed the western slope and crested into the Tahoe Basin. Over 1,000 structures were ...

In the summer of 2021, the Caldor Fire roared over the Sierra Nevada crest and into South Lake Tahoe. Thankfully, proactive forest treatments including strategic thinning of dense trees ...

A father and son were being held in jail on $1 million bail each Thursday after they were arrested in connection with California's Caldor Fire.