Chief concerns: What does the incident commander do at an emergency wildland fire?
By John R. Hawkins
Fire Chief & Operational Area Fire & Rescue Coordinator
Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department
Editor’s note: Chief Hawkins uses an imaginary, but...
Readers Write: A salute to the laser show
Editor:
Dave Barry has remarked that there’s nothing one can ever say or do but somebody else will take it much too seriously. I’m alluding,...
Readers Write: Suicide prevention
Dear editor:September is Suicide Prevention Month and it’s important that we are there for each other and take steps to prevent suicide....
Creature Corner: February 11, 2016
ARF announces a new production: “Like catnip through the hourglass, so are the days of our nine lives.”
Furball Bill: (Talking with Rey and...
Opinion: Don’t dump on Pine Cove
Pine Cove and Idyllwild should be united, together striving for fire safety. And you, our fire commissioners, have brought nothing but division, scandal and...
Readers Write: Accountability …
Editor:
I appreciate the Town Crier keeping the fire under the feet of the Idyllwild Fire Department, local water districts and the propane-gas price gouging.
Why...
Readers Write: Indivisibles honor the Constitution …
Editor:
As I read Ian Tober’s letter last week, I had to smile. Ian’s accusation that I and those involved in Idyllwild Indivisible are un-American...
Fire and Forest: ‘Citizen of the Year’ and other lessons from the Woodies …
The Woodies are the rock stars of California fire safe councils.
As the volunteer arm of the Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council, they abate homes...
Out Loud: April 6, 2017
We have a decades-long issue in the U.S. regarding search and rescues in outdoor areas. Who pays if you need to be rescued? You...
Mountain Folk: December 24, 2015
A photo of singer Marja Kay of Idyllwild made it into the Dec. 15 issue of The New Yorker magazine.
The photo represented a multi-cast...