A wildland Fire was reported at 2:19 p.m. Thursday, May 17, in Winchester, west of Hemet. The fire is 1,261 acres and is 40 percent contained as of 7:21 p.m.
Smoke in our mountains coming from Winchester
By Jack Clark
A wildland Fire was reported at 2:19 p.m. Thursday, May 17, in Winchester, west of Hemet. The fire is 1,261 acres and is 40 percent contained as of 7:21 p.m.
Last week, Hemet Unified School District honored and recognized two employees from every school and the district offices, including two from Idyllwild School. Middle School teacher Bob Leih was designated teacher of the year and Melissa Churchill, the health technician, was classified employee of the year for Idyllwild School. Leih also was recognized as the…
The Riverside County Department of Waste Resources has scheduled a tire event in Idyllwild from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 5. Residents may bring old and unwanted tires — only tires — to the county yard at 25780 Johnson Road that day. This is on the right just beyond the Idyllwild Fire Station. DWR…
Fire log Idyllwild Fire Station responded to the following calls, Monday to Saturday, Oct. 5 to Oct. 10. Idyllwild • Oct. 5 — False alarm or false call, other. • Oct. 7 — EMS call, excluding vehicle accident with injury. • Oct. 8 — Municipal alarm system, malicious false alarm. • Oct. 8 — EMS…
Fire log Idyllwild Fire Station responded to the following calls, Monday to Sunday, Sept. 28 to Oct. 4. Idyllwild • Sept. 28 — Assist invalid, 24000 block of Fern Valley Rd. • Sept. 28 — EMS call, excluding vehicle accident with injury. • Sept. 29 — EMS call, excluding vehicle accident with injury. • Oct….
Locals, and friends living in the valleys to the west, noticed smoke last week from a prescribed burn. Lee Beyer, USFS Forestry Technician detailed to this district for the project, wrote in answer to an inquiry from the Town Crier that the smoke was from a “prescribed low-intensity burn of the Pine Cove Fuelbreak.” …...
Vandals shot out car windows in multiple locations over a two-day period on Saturday, July 9, and Sunday, July 10. Although reports are still incomplete, Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station received information that damage took place in 15 different locations, including neighborhoods in and around Lake Lane, Idyllbrook Drive, Toll Gate Road, Middle Ridge…