Pile burning on Westridge
By Idyllwild Town Crier
The U.S. Forest Service is doing pile burning Wednesday, Feb. 27, on the Westridge Fuel Break. The start time was 9:30 a.m. Firefighters are targeting about 300 piles.
Ron Kimmerle, 49, of Pine Cove, failed to appear at 8:30 a.m., June 1 at a Felony Settlement Conference at Southwest Justice Center in Murrieta. At 11:22 a.m. the court issued a bench warrant for failure to appear and set bail at $120,000.
Mountain Disaster Preparedness Disaster Aid Station personnel at a Saturday, Aug. 6 exercise.
The Idyllwild Community Fund, a division of the Community Foundation that serves Riverside and San Bernardino counties, approved a new program that gives grant-funding ability to Idyllwild Middle School students. The Youth Grantmakers Program, already in place for off-Hill high school students, will be offered to middle school students for the first time, according to…
Long-term weather forecasting gets complicated The future may be uncertain, but the past was clearly visible at Thursday evening’s Mountain Disaster Preparedness meeting. Alex Tardy, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s San Diego office, described several recent weather events, such as the drought, the summer and winter temperatures, and rainfall, with superlatives —…
For Anza resident Scott Firth, the events of last February, are indelibly etched in his memory. An early evening trip down Highway 74 to the desert turned into a life-threatening disaster when he swerved to avoid another motorist and his vehicle cartwheeled 300 feet down the side of a steep ravine. Firth, who was dressed…
It’s old, it’s very narrow and according to some Garner Valley residents, dangerous because of its width. The bridge over Hurkey Creek on Highway 74, built in 1930, is only 23 feet wide, with bridge side rails extending just one foot on each side past the 21-foot-wide roadway. Caltrans plans to replace the bridge sometime…
