The power outage last week had no exemptions. But Idyllwild School, as several local businesses, did have an emergency generator onsite to help. The outage occurred about 11:45 a.m., and the school day ends about 2:45 p.m. for grades one to five, and 10 minutes later for the middle school. Principal Matt Kraemer and his…
While Judge Shelleyanne W.L. Chang did not issue a final ruling on the litigation between the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and Cal Fire regarding the legality of the state fire protection fee, the tentative ruling at the Dec. 8 hearing supported the state’s argument that HJTA took too long moving the case forward. “CALFIRE’s motion…
Last year, the California Attorney General’s Office, on behalf of its client, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, also known as Cal Fire, filed a lawsuit in state court against Dr. Tarek M. Shawaf, and his employees, seeking millions of dollars in damages owing to the 2013 Mountain Fire, which began on his Mountain…
By about 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 8, all electrical power had been restored to Hill communities. Just before noon Thursday, Dec. 7, Southern California Edison had shut power off from Anza to Twin Pines. “This is extraordinary action which we don’t take lightly,” said SCE Media Relations Manager Mary Ann Milbourn. “We turned off the…
A little before noon on Tuesday morning, a large branch hit the home at 54575 Memory Lane off of Saunders Meadow. No one was in the residence when it occurred. There were no injuries, but power and cable lines were also taken out by the tree. Photos by Jenny Kirchner
Idyllwild Fire Chief Patrick Reitz alerted the Town Crier that SCE has planned to shut power down to the Hill for an indefinite period because of the numerous downed trees.
Trees were down throughout the town and Hill. Power out late Wednesday night in a part of Idyllwild, then all of Hill (about 2,400 customers) was without power Thursday morning, Dec. 7. Part of that outage lasted from about 6:10 a.m. to 7:50 a.m. UPDATE: SCE hopes to restore the remaining 31 by 5 p.m….
TC business ads are focused, highly visible and enduring Judith and Ronald Shenkman, who receive their Town Crier at their Huntington Beach home, asked to raise their Membership level and sent the TC a second check to accomplish that. It’s wonderful and heartening that they would take the trouble to re-evaluate their Membership — a…
Zach Behrens is the new public information officer for the San Bernardino National Forest, replacing John Miller who retired at the end of July. Behrens left the National Park Service’s Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area to join the U.S. Forest Service. He also previously served as the acting public information officer at Sequoia and…
Intent to increase federal funds for Medi-Cal The state is using emergency medical transports to garner funding increases for its Medi-Cal program from the federal government that will directly impact the Idyllwild Fire Department. This fall, the state Legislature passed and Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 523 that will impose a quality-assurance fee on…
