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First flames, then fees: Tahoe evacuees report price-gouging

Evacuees are reporting rideshare costs up eight-times the normal amount and hotels charging $450 per night in Nevada.

STATELINE, Nev. — The threat the Caldor Fire poses to Lake Tahoe residents is exposing differences between laws against price-gouging in Nevada and California.

While California prohibits exorbitant price increases during emergencies, a ban that Nevada lawmakers passed this year doesn't take effect until October. 

Evacuees are reporting rideshare companies quoting trips from area ski resorts to the Reno-Tahoe International Airport at eight times the normal rate and hotels on the Nevada side of the resort town hiked room rates to nearly $450 per night.

Reports of price-gouging have emerged routinely in disaster zones during hurricanes and won newfound attention in statehouses during the pandemic.

Read the full story from the Associated Press.

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WATCH ALSO: A recap of the fight against the Caldor Fire, evacuation of South Lake Tahoe

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