{"id":187651,"date":"2021-10-02T15:44:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T22:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=187651"},"modified":"2021-10-02T16:22:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T23:22:14","slug":"crews-battling-caldor-fire-give-thanks-to-harrahs-lake-tahoe-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/crews-battling-caldor-fire-give-thanks-to-harrahs-lake-tahoe-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrah\u2019s Lake Tahoe Team Thanked By Crews Battling Caldor Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Employees at a Lake Tahoe hotel-casino who stayed behind to help shelter fire crews during a massive California wildfire received a pleasant surprise \u2014 a handwritten \u201cThank-you\u201d note.<\/p>\n

\"Harrah's
Personal messages adorn the inside of a “Thank-you” card to Harrah’s Lake Tahoe employees. The card was signed by firefighters who stayed at the resort during the Caldor Fire. (Image: Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Twitter page<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On its Twitter feed this week, Harrah\u2019s Lake Tahoe Hotel and Casino posted a picture of the “Thank-you” card, which includes personal messages from crew members battling the Caldor Fire.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis gives us all the warm feels,\u201d the Harrah\u2019s tweet reads. \u201cOur hotel team that chose to stay during the Caldor Fire evacuation to accommodate first responders received a handwritten card.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n

In late August, as the fire inched toward the alpine lake, thousands of residents in the surrounding towns departed under mandatory evacuation orders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The four major hotel casinos on the South Shore in Stateline, Nevada, were closed to patrons, but open for emergency crews, firefighters, and some employees.\u00a0 <\/span>In addition to Harrah\u2019s, the other major hotel-casinos in Stateline are MontBleu Resort, Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, and Harveys Lake Tahoe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lake Tahoe straddles the California-Nevada border in the Sierra Nevada mountains, about 20 miles west of Nevada\u2019s capital, Carson City. The lake\u2019s rim is dotted with homes and businesses, and on the Nevada side, with casinos. The largest casinos are in Stateline, just east of the California town of South Lake Tahoe.<\/p>\n

During the late summer, the blaze shrouded the pristine lake in smoke and ash<\/a> and upended what normally would have been a busy Labor Day weekend.<\/p>\n

Casino Welcomes Fire Crews<\/h2>\n

By mid-September, after the evacuation orders were lifted<\/a>, the four large South Shore hotel-casinos were reopened to the public.<\/p>\n

Some firefighters were still using guest rooms at area hotels into September. Harveys Lake Tahoe recently tweeted a brief video of firefighters at the resort.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do you do when you receive a request to help 400 firefighters assisting with the Caldor Fire containment?\u201d Harveys tweeted. \u201cWell, last weekend we gave them all rooms!\u201d<\/p>\n

Threat Not Over<\/h2>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/i> reported this week that the Caldor Fire is 83 percent contained. However, with the strong winds that commonly occur in that area during October, the potential for further problems exist, fire officials said.<\/p>\n

The Caldor Fire threat is not over yet,\u201d Eldorado National Forest Supervisor Jeff Marsolais said. \u201cWe are still engaged in fire suppression and there are many hazards in the burned area.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fueled by California\u2019s dry timberland and parched terrain, the Caldor Fire has burned through 347 square miles in several counties since it began on Aug. 14. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Caldor Fire the 15th-largest wildfire in California history, the Sacramento Bee <\/i>reported. It is one of a dozen major fires this year in California.<\/p>\n

During the past 30 years, climate change has made the West warmer and drier, leading to more fires, the Associated Press reported. The world\u2019s hottest month on record occurred this July, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis new record adds to the disturbing and disruptive path that climate change has set for the globe,\u201d NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Employees at a Lake Tahoe hotel-casino who stayed behind to help shelter fire crews during a massive California wildfire received a pleasant surprise \u2014 a handwritten \u201cThank-you\u201d note. On its Twitter feed this week, Harrah\u2019s Lake Tahoe Hotel and Casino posted a picture of the “Thank-you” card, which includes personal messages from crew members battling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":187654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHarrah\u2019s Lake Tahoe Team Thanked By Crews Battling Caldor Fire - Casino.org Crews Battling Caldor Fire Give Thanks to Harrah\u2019s Lake Tahoe Team \u00a0<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Employees at a Lake Tahoe hotel-casino who stayed behind to help shelter fire crews during a massive California wildfire received a pleasant surprise \u2014 a Firefighters sent a "thank you" note to Harrah's Lake Tahoe employees who helped during the Caldor Fire.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Harrah\u2019s Lake Tahoe Team Thanked By Crews Battling Caldor Fire - Casino.org Crews Battling Caldor Fire Give Thanks to Harrah\u2019s Lake Tahoe Team \u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Employees at a Lake Tahoe hotel-casino who stayed behind to help shelter fire crews during a massive California wildfire received a pleasant surprise \u2014 a Firefighters sent a "thank you" note to Harrah's Lake Tahoe employees who helped during the Caldor Fire.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/crews-battling-caldor-fire-give-thanks-to-harrahs-lake-tahoe-team\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Casino.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-02T22:44:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-10-02T23:22:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Harrahs-Tahoe.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1178\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"876\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Larry Henry\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Larry Henry\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/crews-battling-caldor-fire-give-thanks-to-harrahs-lake-tahoe-team\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/crews-battling-caldor-fire-give-thanks-to-harrahs-lake-tahoe-team\/\",\"name\":\"Harrah\u2019s Lake Tahoe Team Thanked By Crews Battling Caldor Fire - Casino.org Crews Battling Caldor Fire Give Thanks to Harrah\u2019s Lake Tahoe Team \u00a0\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/crews-battling-caldor-fire-give-thanks-to-harrahs-lake-tahoe-team\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/crews-battling-caldor-fire-give-thanks-to-harrahs-lake-tahoe-team\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Harrahs-Tahoe.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-02T22:44:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-10-02T23:22:14+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8b29707270b397c572e9fd8f0fb72952\"},\"description\":\"Employees at a Lake Tahoe hotel-casino who stayed behind to help shelter fire crews during a massive California wildfire received a pleasant surprise \u2014 a Firefighters sent a \\\"thank you\\\" note to Harrah's Lake Tahoe employees who helped during the Caldor Fire.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/crews-battling-caldor-fire-give-thanks-to-harrahs-lake-tahoe-team\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/crews-battling-caldor-fire-give-thanks-to-harrahs-lake-tahoe-team\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/crews-battling-caldor-fire-give-thanks-to-harrahs-lake-tahoe-team\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Harrahs-Tahoe.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Harrahs-Tahoe.png\",\"width\":1178,\"height\":876},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/crews-battling-caldor-fire-give-thanks-to-harrahs-lake-tahoe-team\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Commercial Gaming\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/commercial-gaming\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Harrah\u2019s Lake Tahoe Team Thanked By Crews Battling Caldor Fire\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Casino.org\",\"description\":\"Latest Casino and Gaming News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8b29707270b397c572e9fd8f0fb72952\",\"name\":\"Larry Henry\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Larry-Henry-bio-headshot-96x96.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Larry-Henry-bio-headshot-96x96.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Larry Henry\"},\"description\":\"Gaming Regulation, Crime, Politics \u2014 Larry Henry is a veteran print and broadcast journalist who spent more than 16 years in Nevada, including serving as legislative reporter for the Reno Gazette-Journal and as political editor at the Las Vegas Sun. He's also written about popular culture for the Mob Museum in Las Vegas. As a broadcast journalist, he worked as managing editor at KFSM-TV, the CBS affiliate in Arkansas, where he now lives and where casino growth is a hot topic. A Marine Corps veteran and LSU graduate, he is also an avid movie fan, especially of classic film noir from the 1940s and \u201950s.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/author\/larry-henry\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Harrah\u2019s Lake Tahoe Team Thanked By Crews Battling Caldor Fire - Casino.org Crews Battling Caldor Fire Give Thanks to Harrah\u2019s Lake Tahoe Team \u00a0","description":"Employees at a Lake Tahoe hotel-casino who stayed behind to help shelter fire crews during a massive California wildfire received a pleasant surprise \u2014 a Firefighters sent a \"thank you\" note to Harrah's Lake Tahoe employees who helped during the Caldor Fire.","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Harrah\u2019s Lake Tahoe Team Thanked By Crews Battling Caldor Fire - Casino.org Crews Battling Caldor Fire Give Thanks to Harrah\u2019s Lake Tahoe Team \u00a0","og_description":"Employees at a Lake Tahoe hotel-casino who stayed behind to help shelter fire crews during a massive California wildfire received a pleasant surprise \u2014 a Firefighters sent a \"thank you\" note to Harrah's Lake Tahoe employees who helped during the Caldor Fire.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/crews-battling-caldor-fire-give-thanks-to-harrahs-lake-tahoe-team\/","og_site_name":"Casino.org","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews","article_published_time":"2021-10-02T22:44:15+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-10-02T23:22:14+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1178,"height":876,"url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Harrahs-Tahoe.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Larry Henry","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Casino_Org","twitter_site":"@Casino_Org","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Larry Henry","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/crews-battling-caldor-fire-give-thanks-to-harrahs-lake-tahoe-team\/","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/crews-battling-caldor-fire-give-thanks-to-harrahs-lake-tahoe-team\/","name":"Harrah\u2019s Lake Tahoe Team Thanked By Crews Battling Caldor Fire - Casino.org Crews Battling Caldor Fire Give Thanks to Harrah\u2019s Lake Tahoe Team \u00a0","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/crews-battling-caldor-fire-give-thanks-to-harrahs-lake-tahoe-team\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/crews-battling-caldor-fire-give-thanks-to-harrahs-lake-tahoe-team\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Harrahs-Tahoe.png","datePublished":"2021-10-02T22:44:15+00:00","dateModified":"2021-10-02T23:22:14+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8b29707270b397c572e9fd8f0fb72952"},"description":"Employees at a Lake Tahoe hotel-casino who stayed behind to help shelter fire crews during a massive California wildfire received a pleasant surprise \u2014 a Firefighters sent a \"thank you\" note to Harrah's Lake Tahoe employees who helped during the Caldor Fire.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/crews-battling-caldor-fire-give-thanks-to-harrahs-lake-tahoe-team\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/crews-battling-caldor-fire-give-thanks-to-harrahs-lake-tahoe-team\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/crews-battling-caldor-fire-give-thanks-to-harrahs-lake-tahoe-team\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Harrahs-Tahoe.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Harrahs-Tahoe.png","width":1178,"height":876},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/crews-battling-caldor-fire-give-thanks-to-harrahs-lake-tahoe-team\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Commercial Gaming","item":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/commercial-gaming\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Harrah\u2019s Lake Tahoe Team Thanked By Crews Battling Caldor Fire"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/","name":"Casino.org","description":"Latest Casino and Gaming News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8b29707270b397c572e9fd8f0fb72952","name":"Larry Henry","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Larry-Henry-bio-headshot-96x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Larry-Henry-bio-headshot-96x96.jpg","caption":"Larry Henry"},"description":"Gaming Regulation, Crime, Politics \u2014 Larry Henry is a veteran print and broadcast journalist who spent more than 16 years in Nevada, including serving as legislative reporter for the Reno Gazette-Journal and as political editor at the Las Vegas Sun. He's also written about popular culture for the Mob Museum in Las Vegas. As a broadcast journalist, he worked as managing editor at KFSM-TV, the CBS affiliate in Arkansas, where he now lives and where casino growth is a hot topic. A Marine Corps veteran and LSU graduate, he is also an avid movie fan, especially of classic film noir from the 1940s and \u201950s.","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/author\/larry-henry\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}