Flats Fire update
By Idyllwild Town Crier
As of Monday morning, June 21, the Flats Fire in the Santa Rosa mountains is 100% contained.
The fire that began at about 11:15 a.m. Sunday, June 20, in at the Pinyon transfer station, destroyed two dwellings, damaged three other dwellings and three outbuildings, and burned 341 acres.
Cause of the fire is still under investigation.
For the first time since 2015, when Riverside County awarded the emergency ambulance service contract to American Medical Response (AMR), the county’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Agency has denied AMR’s request to extend the contract’s expiration date. Each year, AMR submits an annual report that EMS uses to review compliance with the contract and whether…
Jim Billman was re-elected as president of the Idyllwild Water District Board of Directors. John Cook was re-elected as vice president. Both have held these board positions since January 2014. This year the vote was not unanimous. New Director Steve Kunkle nominated Cook for the presidency and Billman as the vice president after Director Mike…
Although the town of Idyllwild, several thousand people, had been evacuated, a mobile city of about 3,500 people was quickly constructed in Garner Valley. Mountain Fire city is a company town — nearly 3,300 firefighting professionals. With that many people, where do they work, eat and sleep? The company business is to contain and eventually…
The Local Review Board of the Idyllwild Historic Preservation District met briefly Thursday, April 26. The board is still working on possible revisions to its flowchart for a permit for historic district alterations. But it took no action at this meeting. “We should discuss this, and I will have an update for the next meeting,”…
On Jan. 28, 2011, Animal Rescue Friends of Idyllwild (ARF) opened the doors of Sadie’s Clinic for Pet Wellness to meet the basic medical needs of Idyllwild’s animal population. Since that time, Dr. Michael Nastro has been coming to the clinic in Oakwood Village on alternating Fridays and has seen more than 300 clients and…
Since Idyllwild Water District (IWD) Director Dave Hunt is a public official, he surely is aware that his public utterances are of interest to the public he serves. He hardly could be more public with his utterances than to send them directly to the editor — or to the publishers — of his local newspaper,…
