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Southern California Edison shut down power to nearly 12,000 customers from Hemet to Banning, including all of Idyllwild and Pine Cove, today around 4:30 p.m. Louis Davis, SCE representative, told the Town Crier that the outage was in response to the discovery this afternoon of a major copper wire theft. Davis said the outage is…
On Feb. 23, the California Department of Parks and Recreation rescued two lost male hikers ages 51 and 39 of Indiana in Mt. San Jacinto State Park. At about 4:30 p.m. State Parks received a phone call from the lost hikers. The hikers said that they had taken the Palm Springs Tram to Long Valley…
San Bernardino National Forest (SBNF) personnel began pile burning Monday, Dec. 30 at the Vista Grande station north of Idyllwild. Smoke and flames may have been visible to those on the mountain and in the San Jacinto Valley. The burning will continue through Tuesday, Dec. 31. One pile was burned initially to see if the…
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(This story was taken from a State Parks press release.) Mt. San Jacinto State Park spokesperson Todd Friedman reported four rescues involving 12 hikers in the wilderness, all on Sunday. State Parks received a call of a missing hiker at about 1:30 p.m. Sunday. The 45-year-old man from Huntington Beach got separated from his scouting troop…
The Goldspotted oak borer, the non-native beetle that has killed more than 80,000 oaks in San Diego County, has been positively identified in an Idyllwild oak, on Highway 243 near the center of town. Currently, entomologists know of no native California predator or insecticidal defense against the tree killer. A DNA analysis, conducted by the…