Nearly 100 turned out to the community meeting that Mountain Disaster Preparedness organized to educate residents about the purchase and use of generators. Opening the meeting, MDP President Mike Feyder and Idyllwild Fire Chief Patrick Reitz stressed both the frequency of power outages and the length of them are going to increase in the future….

Road closures will not limit access in an emergency The Mountain Area Safety Taskforce met Wednesday, June 12 with attendance remaining slightly less than normal, due to the current road closures from Hemet and Banning. MAST meets about quarterly. Fire officials — federal, state and local — described their winter projects and preparation for the…