
PHOTO BY JOEL FEINGOLD
Idyllwild Community Center construction
By Idyllwild Town Crier


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…
Hill communities got a heavy dose of precipitation Tuesday and though the weather was cold, it wasn’t cold enough to snow.
Cal Fire/Riverside County Firefighters, along with firefighters from the San Bernardino National Forest, are on scene of a fully involved structure fire with a small spot of vegetation in Poppet Flats. The first arriving engine company reported a structure fully involved. As of 4 p.m., eight fire companies with 64 firefighters were already on the…
Idyllwild is growing and aging …
Well levels are lower at Fern Valley Water District owing to a drier than normal winter. Prior to the storm that dropped eight inches of snow in Idyllwild and 13-1⁄2 inches in Pine Cover and upper Fern Valley, precipitation was about half of what it had been last year at this time. Now it approaches…
The U.S. Forest Service started a pile burn Tuesday, Feb. 13, along the Pine Cove Fuel Break. On Monday, the Forest Service completed a burn near the Vista Grande Fire Station on Highway 243, about mid-way between Banning and Idyllwild. At Vista Grande, the Forest Service burned three piles of slash. However, at Pine Cove,…