People fleeing a massive wildfire near the California-Nevada border this week reported $1,500 rides to the airport and hotel rooms going for nearly four times the normal rate.
A rideshare company quoted a fee of more than $1,500 to be transported from the smoke-choked ski resort at Heavenly Valley to the safety of Reno-Tahoe International Airport, about eight times the going rate. A Nevada hotel-casino outside the evacuation order zone advertised a two-night stay for $1,090.72, almost four times the midweek rate offered a day earlier.early in the pandemic, when some businesses tried to capitalize on panic amid demand for toilet paper and hand sanitizer.
“We hope that good merchants are not going to partake in price gouging,” Sisolak said Tuesday in Carson City, where ash particles from the Caldor Fire rained from the sky. “They’re going to partake in trying to make their goods available to the widest group of people they possibly can.” Ford’s office said Wednesday it hadn’t received any specific complaints. Bonta’s said the information was confidential.but remained just a few miles from the California resort town of South Lake Tahoe. On Monday, flames raced so quickly toward the city that officials ordered a mass evacuation of all 22,000 residents. People across the state line in Douglas County were ordered to leave a day later.
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