Firefighters fought a small fire on the west side of Bee Canyon on Sunday. The Cranston #2 Fire was contained to 1 acre, according to San Jacinto Ranger District Fire Chief Freddie Espinoza. The district’s Station 52 (Kenworthy in Garner Valley) Capt. Jim Snow was incident commander. Firefighting resources from Cal Fire, as well as…

For several years, members of the Mountain Area Safety Taskforce have been working with the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Southwest Research to evaluate whether fuels treatments that leave chipped woody material behind are contributing to fire abatement or creating a fire problem. The lead investigator, Dr. Pamela E. Padgett, research plant physiologist at the research…

Riverside County Third District Supervisor Chuck Washington has moved his first quarterly meeting of the year from Feb. 27 to noon-2 p.m. on March 20.  When asked why the change of date and almost a month out, his office responded that something else came up that he wanted to use his influence to support.  The…