Our Hill currently is experience a good deal of smoke drifting south from the San Gorgonio Wilderness in the greater Big Bear area on the “other mountain.” There currently is no fire in the San Jacinto mountains.
Fire in San Gorgonio Wilderness; not near here
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Our Hill currently is experience a good deal of smoke drifting south from the San Gorgonio Wilderness in the greater Big Bear area on the “other mountain.” There currently is no fire in the San Jacinto mountains.
This Saturday, October 4, is the day for Red Cross of Riverside County’s “Sound the Alarm” free smoke alarm installation and home fire education event in Idyllwild and Pine Cove. The event will be appointment based, so it is vital that residents interested in the program sign up via the website or phone number below. …
Fire log Hill fire stations responded to the following calls, Monday to Monday, Sept. 25 to Oct. 1, 2012: Idyllwild Fire Department and Ambulance Sept. 25 — Walk-in medical aid. Sept. 26 — Medical aid, Saunders Meadow Road, Idyllwild. Sept. 27 — Medical aid, Delano Drive, Idyllwild. Sept. 27 — Medical aid, Overlook Drive, Pine…
A little before noon on Tuesday morning, a large branch hit the home at 54575 Memory Lane off of Saunders Meadow. No one was in the residence when it occurred. There were no injuries, but power and cable lines were also taken out by the tree. Photos by Jenny Kirchner
Improvement costs approach $600 million Last month, in response to Senate Bill 901 (approved Sept. 21, 2018), California’s electric public utilities submitted wildfire mitigation plans to the state’s Public Utilities Commission. Southern California Edison’s plan was more than 100 pages long. The document described dozens of different actions and plans to lower the risk of…
The final bald eagle count of the 2017-18 season was Saturday, March 10. Despite inclement weather, the five observers at Lake Hemet spotted two adult nesting bald eagles. The other four counting sites recorded six adults, three juveniles and two chicks in the nest at Big Bear Lake. These chicks are nearly a month old…
In July 2013, the Mountain Fire caused the evacuation of much of the Hill. The fire originated on property owned by Tarek M. Al-Shawaf in Mountain Center. It swept northeasterly along the east side of South Ridge and formed a crescent-shaped burn area that surrounded Idyllwild on three sides. Some homes and other structures were…