{"id":187235,"date":"2026-02-21T06:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187235\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T06:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:36:10","slug":"two-killed-in-separate-incidents-at-south-lake-tahoe-ski-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187235\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed in separate incidents at South Lake Tahoe ski resort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH LAKE TAHOE \u2014 Two people were killed in separate incidents Friday morning at Heavenly Lake Tahoe, the latest in a line of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/02\/19\/off-duty-northstar-employee-found-dead-on-ski-run\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">skiing-related deaths<\/a> in the region, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The Douglas County Sheriff\u2019s Office said the incidents happened just before noon, but did not specify a possible cause of death for either person. Heavenly Ski Patrol members transported the two people to the base area of the resort from unspecified areas, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Ski patrol members and Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District paramedics attempted life-saving measures, but the people were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office said their identities will be released following notification of next of kin.<\/p>\n<p>The incidents were not connected, and there is no known relationship between the two people, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>No other details were released Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis remains an active investigation,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>The deaths follow three others this month at Northstar California Resort in Truckee. On Thursday, search and rescue teams found 21-year-old Colin Kang \u2014 a Fremont resident, San Jose State University graduate and resort employee \u2014 dead on a ski run.<\/p>\n<p>Skiing accidents at Northstar also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/02\/17\/bay-area-man-killed-in-skiing-accident-at-truckee-resort\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">claimed the lives<\/a> of Stuart McLaughlin, 53, of Hillsborough, on Feb. 15, and Nicholas Kenworthy, 26, of Los Angeles, on Feb. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, at least eight backcountry skiers were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/02\/20\/avalanche-near-castle-peak-what-we-know-so-far-about-the-deadliest-slide-in-california-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">killed in a powerful avalanche<\/a> near Castle Peak; a ninth person is missing and presumed dead. Six have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/02\/20\/castle-peak-avalanche-victims-remembered\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">identified by their families<\/a> as Carrie Atkin, Liz Clabaugh, Danielle Keatley, Kate Morse, Caroline Sekar and Kate Vitt.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH LAKE TAHOE \u2014 Two people were killed in separate incidents Friday morning at Heavenly Lake Tahoe, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[184,7,9,8,12007,26411,14390,5446],"class_list":["post-187235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-fatality","tag-heavenly","tag-skiing","tag-south-lake-tahoe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}