Editor’s note: Instead of interviewing folk in our community about this fire that came so close to swallowing our towns, we decided to let people speak for themselves and let you read their accounts in hopes that some of this will result in some healing for all of us. Breanna Jewell We had barely returned…
The name of the Anza man who was killed in a one-vehicle collision at about 9:20 p.m. Friday, July 20, 1/4-mile east of Cahuilla Way on Highway 74, has been identified as Keith Marlin, 44. Marlin was driving a 1998 Mercedes Benz E320 westbound on Highway 74, west of Palowet Drive. For reasons still under…
Andrea Bond lost her Deerfoot Lane home to the Cranston Fire sometime Wednesday night, July 25. “It all happened pretty fast, but I remember having a normal morning. I went outside close to noon and saw ash falling, smelled the smoke and noticed my neighbors appeared to be in a panic. I quickly started packing…
When I arrived at Banning High School Saturday afternoon July 28, it was 106 degrees in the shade. I parked and walked across sizzling asphalt toward the cafeteria area, passing a woman lying on a cot under a shade tent speaking with a Red Cross volunteer, empty water bottles strewn about on the grass around…
National Night Out is from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7, according to Idyllwild Rotarian Barbara Larsh. Riverside County Sheriff’s Hemet Station, Idyllwild Fire, U.S. Forest Service and Cal Fire are participating. It will be located on Park Lane between The Fort and Idypark. Idyllwild Rotary will be on hand with hot dogs and…
Effective Wednesday, Aug. 1, Shawn C. Newman will serve as the Cal Fire Riverside Unit and Riverside County Fire Department fire chief. Newman began his career with Cal Fire in 1989, as a seasonal firefighter in the San Bernardino Unit and In 1994, promoted to Firefighter II in the Riverside Unit, working in West Riverside….
Anza Electric Cooperative customers, who include Garner Valley residents, will have their power restored to all areas sometime Monday, Aug. 6, according to AEC. The cooperative said it has received that information from Southern California Edison.
The Cranston Fire that began threatening Idyllwild a week ago today remains at 13, 139 acres and is now 89 percent contained. 889 personnel remain on scene. The evacuation order is lifted for Idyllwild and Pine Cove north of Lower Saunders Meadow Road. Access can be made from Banning on Highway 243. Access to Garner…
Wednesday, July 25, the third of four consecutive days of heat warning, started with blue skies, hardly any clouds, but hot. No one had any idea how hot the day and days that followed would get.
On Friday, Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin announced that Brandon N. McGlover, 32, of Temecula, was charged with 15 felony counts related to nine separate fires, of which the largest was the Cranston Fire. The nine arson fires were all set the same day, July 25, and were in the Idyllwild, Anza and Sage…
