One person died and another was injured in an avalanche Wednesday morning at Palisades Tahoe, a ski resort in Olympic Valley, Calif.
“The avalanche caused one fatality and one injury,” The Placer County Sheriff’s Office said in an update about four hours after the snow slide.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, no one else has been reported missing.
The resort closed both sides of the mountain for the remainder of Wednesday.
The avalanche, which happened about 9:30 a.m. local time, was on the Palisades side of the resort mountain, Palisades Tahoe said. The Sheriff’s Office added that it was specifically above the GS bowl area of KT-22.
There was a risk for a potential avalanche on Wednesday, according to the Sierra Avalanche Center, which pointed to a strong winter storm in the area as the cause.
Video from Live Storms Media shows numerous fire trucks and police vehicles at the snowy resort. The outlet reported medical personnel was working on patients inside the resort’s medical building.
The outlet described the avalanche as “major” and resulted in “numerous entrapments and injuries.” Olympic Valley Firefighters told LSM that at least one patient was receiving CPR and another was being treated for a broken leg.
“It’s currently all hands on deck,” one firefighter told LSM.
The Placer County Sheriff’s Office said the Olympic Valley Fire Department responded to reports of an avalanche. The OVFD then called appropriate agencies to assist the ski patrol’s efforts, including the Sheriff’s Office, which assisted in the search and rescue mission. It added Tahoe Nordic Search and Rescue was activated.
The Sheriff’s Office is investigating the coroner’s case, it said in an update.
The Palisades Tahoe resort, in Olympic Valley, Calif., sits on the western side of Lake Tahoe and is just more than 40 miles from Reno.
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