By Chief Mark LaMontIdyllwild Fire Protection District I would like to thank our residents for their partnership, support and continued diligence throughout the 2019 abatement process. We had a record number of properties that passed our inspection process during the first inspection in April. We also had a record number of properties that passed the…
At the last Idyllwild Fire Protection District (IFPD) commission meeting on Oct. 22, Chief Mark LaMont gave an update on the mountain emergency siren alert system from the position of the district. LaMont reached out to Adam Mikels, inside sales representative for American Signal Corporation, for information on sirens. Mikels presented options, including the pros…
At the direction of the California Public Utilities Commission, Southern California Edison (SCE) conducted a Public Safety Power Shut-off (PSPS) event last week in Mountain Center, causing residents to be without power for multiple days. According to SCE’s website — when there are potentially dangerous weather conditions in fire-prone areas — they may call a…
By Clayton Cranford, Cyber Safety CopContributed One of the most exciting aspects of social media for teens is the opportunity to meet and talk to people they don’t know. If you are thinking that this flies in the face of one of the basic safety rules you taught your child when they were little —don’t…
Cal Fire Here are some recent Cal Fire calls by station. Station 23 – Pine Cove • Oct. 30 — Back pain, 2:27 a.m. • Oct. 30 — Vegetation fire, 6:14 a.m. • Oct. 31 — Sick person, 2:41 p.m. • Nov. 1 — Sick person, 10:40 a.m. • Nov. 1 — Outside fire, 11:19…
Some really good news came out of the Caltrans community meeting last Tuesday night, Oct. 29, at Idyllwild School that was coordinated by Mountain Disaster Preparedness. There is now full access to Hemet and Banning from Idyllwild. Public and Media Affairs Chief for Caltrans District 8 Terri Kasinga announced that Highway 243 would reopen by…
By War Horse CreekContributed In his recent book “Tribe,” Sebastian Junger writes, “In humans, lack of social support has been found to be twice as reliable at predicting PTSD as the severity of the trauma itself … No one goes to war and returns unaffected, and these burdens do not belong to the veteran alone…
By Caltrans The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is pleased to announce that Highway 243 will reopen today [Nov. 1] by 6 p.m. between Interstate 10 [Banning] and Idyllwild. The route has been closed since Feb. 14 due to catastrophic damage during a historical storm. Highway 243 was repaved during the emergency closure with a…
By Riverside County Sheriff’s Department On Oct. 30, personnel from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, California Highway Patrol, Hemet Police Department, Gang Task Force, Murrieta Police Department, United States Forestry Service, Animal Control, Riverside County Probation Department, Riverside County Cal-ID, Hemet Tactical Emergency Medical Services and American Medical Response conducted a high-impact zero-tolerance saturation patrol…
One day in 1997, Becky Clark, just promoted editor-in-chief of the Town Crier, was paying Town Crier bills when she came upon one for a few hundred dollars for dues to the California Newspaper Publishers Association (CNPA). Not being sure what that bill was about, she investigated. She found that the CNPA existed to promote…
