Cal Fire/Riverside County Here are some of the calls Cal Fire/Riverside County responded to recently. • April 4 — Traumatic injuries, 1:30 p.m. Transport to Lake Hemet for air transport. • April 5 — Residential fire, 7:25 p.m. Robin Dr. • April 7 — Medical aid, 10:48 a.m. 29300 block of Hwy. 243. Idyllwild Fire…
Rescue extricates him off mountain About 8 a.m. Thursday, April 4, deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Hemet Station were dispatched to assist with a search and rescue operation on the Pacific Crest Trail. A hiker, Steven Loeffler, 52, of Coronado, had slipped and fallen off the trail near Apache Peak, which is near the…
Pine Cove Water District has canceled its April 10 board meeting. The next scheduled meeting is 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 8. A public hearing on the agency’s standby rates is planned for the June 12 meeting.
Just after noon Tuesday, April 9, Cal Fire and U.S. Forest Service and firefighters and aircraft responded to a report of a vegetation fire near Ribbonwood and Sky View Drives in the Piñyon area. A motor home caught fire and ignited the surrounding vegetation. By 1 p.m., the fire was estimated to be…
70 years ago – 1949 More tracks of the mountain lion previously sighted around Ernie Maxwell’s cabin were spotted. The visitor seemed to be more curious than hungry. 65 years ago – 1954 Oscar Lawler, prominent Los Angeles attorney, donated his 80-acre estate in the Dark Canyon area to the county. The donation was made…
Last week in “Days of Our Nine Lives,” the ARF cats celebrated Nala’s adoption. George: What do dogs have that we don’t? Thomas: Why do you ask? Is everything OK? George: For the dogs it is. They keep finding forever homes. Yale was adopted on Monday. He is now living with an amazing couple in…
Globe-traveling Capt. Woody Henderson sailed to see Idyllwild resident Woody Henderson has roots on land, but he has lived his adult life at sea. His father bought the Idyllwild cabin in 1974 that Woody now calls home. But it was the South Bay, Manhattan and Hermosa Beach where he grew up and like many beach…
Brendan Steele put together a 5-under-par 70-72-67-74 — 283 last week to tie for 42nd place at the Valero Texas Open in San Antonio. His drives, averaging 297 yards, found 64 percent of the fairways, and he hit 50 percent of the greens in regulation. Although B putted strongly on Saturday, gaining more than 2.5…
On Thursday, March 21, the Idyllwild Community Fund Youth Grantmakers made presentations to five local recipients in a ceremony at Idyllwild School. YGM is a group from Idyllwild Middle School being sponsored by ICF. Any young person between sixth and eighth grades can participate. The program gives the youth a chance to learn about how…
A rockslide at about 4:30 p.m. today on the eastbound side of Highway 74 between Keen Camp and Hurkey Creek has one lane closed. Caltrans and CHP were on the scene.
