The commissioners of the Idyllwild Fire Protection District Tuesday afternoon, voted 4-0 to establish a Joint Powers Authority to provide fire and emergency service to the city of San Jacinto. Commissioner Larry Donahoo was absent. At a special meeting Monday morning, May 23, the commission voted 5-0 to study a draft agreement and formulate questions…
The Ernie Maxwell Community Spirit Award committee at the Town Crier has decided on three top candidates for the community to choose among. The honor is given to an individual or group who represents EMax’s spirit of community and volunteerism. Prior awardees took actions that created a spark sufficient to bring others into the fray…
Many Idyllwild residents take issue with any suggestion of replacing the local fire/ambulance department with any other. They feel that any outside entity taking control of the station would eliminate local control. I think IFPD ceded local control years ago. Most of the employees are off Hill residents, just like at the two Pine Cove…
Idyllwild Fire Department is hosting a blood drive this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the station.
By all indications, I believe that Idyllwild Fire commissioners and the San Jacinto City Council knew about and condoned the Joint Powers Authority to provide fire protection service to a population about 20 times larger than Idyllwild. The IFPD chief claims he and the SJ city manager put their heads together on this thing on…
American Medical Response and Cal Fire/Riverside County Firefighters are on scene of a snake bite victim on Bonita Vista Road in Garner Valley, an incident reported at 2:38 p.m. Wednesday. The victim, an elderly female, will be transported via ground ambulance to an area hospital for treatment of what appeared to be a rattlesnake bite.
Just before 10 a.m. Wednesday morning, Cal Fire/Riverside County firefighters, Palm Springs Fire, California Highway Patrol and Riverside County Sheriff’s Department deputies responded to a report of an adult female hiker with a rattlesnake bite. The female had been hiking on Skyline Trail in Tahquitz Falls west of Palm Springs for several miles when she…
From 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, May 16, Caltrans will close the southbound lane of Highway 243 from Riverside County Playground Road to Tollgate Road. Traffic will be one-way and regulated during the southbound lane closure. Caltrans Public Information Officer Shelli Lombardo said the lane closure was for public utility work and that a…
My accumulation of things over the past 58 years causes me to prefer acquiring experiences as gifts on occasions, such as birthdays and Christmases, instead of more stuff. So, as my birthday approached last weekend, I decided to fly from a conference in San Francisco to Seattle to visit close friends. I wanted to experience…
Cal Fire/Riverside County firefighters responded to multiple reports of a building filled with smoke at the Zen Mountain Center, 58000 block of Apple Canyon Road in Mountain Center. The first call came in at 7:59 a.m. Thursday. The first arriving engine company reported a single-story structure with light smoke showing, and confirmed a room and…
