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With the San Diego County’s wildfires making air quality in San Diego potentially hazardous, the Chargers are making plans to travel to Arizona tomorrow to continue preparations for their next game.

Next game schedule: Sunday, October 28 at 1:05 pm.
Visiting Team: Houston Texans

A final decision on whether to go to Arizona is expected later today. The Cardinals do not have a game this weekend, but it isn’t known whether the San Diego Chargers are considering moving Sunday’s scheduled home game with Houston to Arizona. Qualcomm Stadium is being used as an evacuation center.

The Chargers were set to resume practice today following BYE weekend off, but after a meeting with coach Norv Turner this morning, the workout was canceled and players were sent home.

The fires burning around the county are nowhere near the team’s Murphy Canyon com plex, but there is smoke in the air and many players and coaches live in areas that have been evacuated. The players al ready were scheduled to be off tomorrow.

“There’s nothing we could do today,” coach Norv Turner said.”We have a dozen guys who have evacuated their houses and have stuff they’ve got to deal with.”

Among those who live in the Poway and Rancho Bernardo area are LaDainian Tomlinson, Shawne Merriman, Shaun Phillips and Luis Castillo. Castillo, who lives in Poway, returned to his home shortly before 10 a.m. and resumed packing in the event he had to leave. “Most of the guys who live around here have been evacuated,” Castillo said as he watched and felt the air get smokier seemingly by the minute.”It’s not looking good.”

Said Turner:”We’ll just see what happens. The air quality is only getting worse.”

It was four years ago this week that fires in San Diego County forced the Chargers to switch a Monday night home game to Tempe, Ariz.

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