Cal Fire/Riverside County and Idyllwild Fire departments personnel responded to a report of an injured hiker at Humber Park at 11:37 a.m. Friday, Dec. 28. The incident occurred on the Ernie Maxwell Trail. The patient was a 20-year-old male hiking with his family on the icy trail when he lost his footing, according to Cal…
Caltrans is alerting the public that the National Weather Service is predicting rain and snow in Southern California this weekend. Snow elevations will possibly drop to the 4,000-foot level, which will affect all mountain regions in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Road conditions will be icy in areas affected by snow. Caltrans maintenance crews are…
A 3.2 magnitude earthquake occurred Wednesday about 7:30 p.m. The tremor was centered 18 miles south/southeast of Valle Vista, and 5 or 6 miles northeast of the intersection of highways 79 and 371, east of Temecula. About an hour earlier, a 2.2 magnitude tremor occurred about 2 miles further southeast. Thursday morning, another 2.2 tremor…
One crash and a suspected driving under the influence arrest occurred over the last week on Hill holiday roads. At 6:50 p.m. Friday, Dec. 28, Joel Villanueva, 21, of Palm Springs, was driving a gray 2001 Ford Windstar westbound on Highway 74 near mile marker 84.75 when he made an unsafe turning movement causing his…
Once again the holiday weather was a good reflection of the season — winter. By the time 2019 arrived, rain and snow had fallen over the Hill. However, the interesting result was that the more southern locales were wetter than the northern ones. More than half an inch of rain was reported at Thomas Mountain…
Cranston Fire Wednesday, July 25, the third of four consecutive days of heat warnings, started with blue skies, hardly any clouds, but hot. No one but one man, an arsonist, had any idea how hot that day and days that followed would get. The Cranston Fire began that morning. At 11:45 a.m., 911 (emergency dispatch)…
As a result of a rash of home break-ins, some reported and some unreported, Joel Feingold has organized another town meeting to discuss the situation and bring awareness to these nocturnal activities here in town. Feingold has invited Capt. Leonard Purvis and Lt. Zach Hall, both from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Hemet Station. Hall will…
The Idyllwild Water District directors appear to be within 30 days of naming a successor to former General Manager Jack Hoagland, whose contract expired Dec. 31, 2018, and was not renewed. The board held its fourth special and closed meeting in the past month, Friday, Dec 28. After that session, President Dr. Charles “Chip” Schelly…
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Cal Fire/Riverside County and Idyllwild Fire departments personnel responded to a report of an injured hiker at Humber Park at 11:37 a.m. Friday, Dec. 28. The incident occurred off of the Ernie Maxwell Trail. It is unclear at this time if the patient was a hiker or a climber. The 20-year-old male patient with a…
