Cal Fire/Riverside County firefighters responded to a report of a vehicle over the side on Highway 74 in the area of Bee Canyon Road at about 11:30 p.m. Thursday. Firefighters, along with California Highway Patrol, scoured the area attempting to locate the vehicle. About one-a-half hours after the initial report, firefighters located the vehicle about…
Fire log The Idyllwild Fire Station responded to the following calls Sunday to Saturday, March 20 to April 2. Idyllwild • March 20 — Power line down. • March 22 — Unintentional transmission of alarm, other. • March 23 — Medical aid. • March 23 — Traffc collision with injuries. • March 24 — Medical…
Editor’s note: The following are quotes from Administrative Law Judge Eric Sawyer’s opinion in his decision regarding the Idyllwild Fire Protection District’s termination of former Capt. James Reyes. Sawyer found the facts presented during seven days of hearings did not support Idyllwild Fire Chief Patrick Reitz’s decision to fire Reyes. Throughout the opinion, Sawyer refers…
Editor’s note: Each year, the Town Crier reports the information below for Pine Cove Water District, Idyllwild Fire Protection District, Idyllwild WD and Fern Valley WD. The March 17 issue has the FVWD salary information, IFPD was in the March 24 issue and the IWD data was in the March 31 issue. Each district provides…
The local review board of the Idyllwild Historic Preservation District met with a full board and Riverside County staff member Keith Herron to review issues or applications within the district. As of the Thursday, March 31 meeting, there were no new applications for modifications of buildings within the historic district. What was discussed was the…
Propane spot price (per gallon at point of production) fell slightly this week — from 46.1 cents last week to 43.9 cents this week (Mont Belvieu, Texas). Same week, a year ago, the spot price was $0.515. Propane delivery prices nationally varied widely for the week of March 28, with a high of $4.716 in…
Several weeks ago, a Town Crier reader and Hill resident brought to our attention a particular large, gray, jagged rock hovering over Highway 243 near the location of the boulder fall at Dead Man’s Curve in January of this year. (See accompanying photo.) His concern was that it looked as if it would not take…
The U.S. Forest Service is proposing some changes to the Land Management Plan for the San Bernardino National Forest and requesting the public’s input on these changes. The FS considers these administrative changes to improve its forest monitoring during 2016. The changes modify questions about activities on the forest. The answers require data collection for…
On Thursday, March 31, Idyllwild Fire Department and the U.S. Forest Service responded to a fire on the Ernie Maxwell Trail. It was about 0.7 miles below Humber Park, and the two fire units extinguished it. “Someone had started what appeared to be a warming fire in a large log along the trail,” wrote Idyllwild…
Three vehicles overturned under similar circumstances and one two car-collision with injuries occurred during the last week on Hill highways. At 2:15 am. Wednesday, March 30, Tom Jimenez, 19, of La Quinta, was driving his 2009 Toyota Camry east on Highway 74 just west of Santa Rosa Truck Trail when he made an unsafe turning…
