One skier was killed and another injured after an avalanche at a Lake Tahoe-area ski resort.
Cole Comstock, 34, of Blairsden, California, was killed during the avalanche at the Alpine Meadows ski resort, the Placer County Sheriff's office said. Another man who was injured was transported by ambulance to Tahoe Forest Hospital in Truckee, where he was undergoing surgery.
As of 12:50 p.m., Sgt. Mike Powers of the Placer County Sheriff’s Office stated that there was no reason to believe that other areas of the ski resort are in jeopardy. The operations teams at Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows had conducted avalanche control at the resort Friday morning after the area received more than 2 feet of snow in the last 24 hours.
The area was deemed clear and open to the public at 8:59 a.m., according to the Squaw Alpine Operations Twitter account.Around 10:15 a.m., the Placer County Sheriff's Office responded to the resort after an avalanche was reported, according to a tweet by the sheriff's office. Powers said ski patrol and volunteers arrived with avalanche transceivers and probes and dug out the skiers “pretty quick.”One witness who declined to give his name said he saw the slide from the chairlift. He said the avalanche happened in seconds.
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