The mountain burn areas around Idyllwild and Pine Cove will be especially susceptible to heavy rain and flooding this afternoon according to a National Weather Service weather warning issued minutes ago. This includes Bonita Vista Ranch, which already lost two natural ponds to Thursday’s flooding. (See related story below.) NWS Doppler radar continues to indicate…
Cynthia Cowell, Small Business Administration’s Office of Disaster Assistance public information officer, met with Hill business people last week. SBA is making loans to local businesses that incurred economic injury from the Mountain or Silver fires. Cowell, here at the request of Riverside County’s Office of Emergency Services, explained the details of the process. These…
The U.S. Forest Service reported that the Little Fire, which started Saturday afternoon, Aug. 24, was fully contained Thursday evening, Aug. 29. The fire’s size was 97 acres and its cause is still under investigation. Firefighters continued to improve the fireline and extinguish burning logs and materials within the fire perimeter. The fire burned chaparral…
The turnout for the 2013 Idyllwild Fire Protection District Commission election was 37 percent, the lowest since the 2001 election. Registered voters in the district have declined from 1,799 in 2001 to 1,593 this year, which was 44 more than 2011, the nadir. Besides the decline in registered voters, the actual number of votes cast…
Idyllwild Elementary School students produced the highest Annual Performance Index 2013 growth scores of the 14 elementary schools in the Hemet Unified School District. Idyllwild School had an API of 908. The API is an index that captures the results of language and math achievement tests for the individual grades into one value for the…
Fire log Hill fire stations responded to the following calls, Monday, Aug. 27, to Monday, Sept. 2: Idyllwild Fire Department and Ambulance Aug. 28 — Medical aid, Idyllwild. Aug. 29 — Medical aid, Idyllwild. Aug. 31 — Medical aid, Anza. Aug. 31 — Medical aid, Idyllwild. Sept. 1 — Three medical aids, Pine Cove. Sept….
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 341 PM THU SEP 5 2013 ..A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6:15 PM PDT FOR CENTRAL RIVERSIDE COUNTY… AT 336 PM PDT, LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLOODING ON ROADWAYS IN THE WARNED AREA. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE FLASH…
Idyllwild Town Crier video shot by Denise Selby on McCall Park Road in Mountain Center Thursday, Sept. 5. around 3 p.m.
The end-of-year financial report for fiscal 2012-13, a patient outcome assessment and board policies were all discussed during the Aug. 27 Idyllwild Fire Protection District commission meeting. For the last fiscal year, IFPD had its fourth-consecutive deficit since 2009. From July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013, the department’s expenses were about $91,500 more than…
Children and adults were able to hold many different non-venomous snakes and other reptiles Sunday at the Idyllwild Nature Center during a reptile event Bill Hayes, left, put on …
