Fire log Hill fire stations responded to the following calls, Tuesday to Monday, July 24 to July 30, 2012: Idyllwild Fire Department and Ambulance July 24 —Medical aid, Live Oak Street, Idyllwild. July 24 — Medical aid standby, Forest Haven Road at Suicide Rock trailhead, Idyllwild. July 24 — Cooking fire, Temecula Drive, Idyllwild. July…
No major actions were taken at the July 24 meeting of the Idyllwild Fire Protection District commission. The discussion of a patient satisfaction assessment process continued. Commissioner Dr. Charles “Chip” Schelly shared a draft of a six-question survey with his colleagues. He stressed that a simple questionnaire would be more likely to generate responses than…
Third District Supervisor Jeff Stone gave the oath of office to Patrick Reitz, Idyllwild’s new Fire Chief Wednesday morning.
New officers for fiscal year 2012-13 were announced at an installation dinner last week at the Fern Valley Inn …
Karen Gose, 27, of Chino died of injuries sustained while descending a sheer face of Suicide Rock in Idyllwild’s San Jacinto Wilderness. Gose, a counselor with a group of Girl Scouts from Camp Scherman in Mountain Center, fell 30 feet onto a rock ledge during a rappelling demonstration for camp scouts, according to the…
May 2012 set a record of 15 felony property crimes in Idyllwild and Pine Cove neighborhoods …
About 1 p.m., two motorcycles collided near the intersection of Highways 74 and 243. Both riders were injured and one taken off by paramedics. The road is open, but currently traffic is slow becasue of the congestion created while awaiting care for the riders.
On Wednesday, July 25, an unidentified suspect tossed an apparently poisoned cookie-appearing edible over a fence into a front yard in the 25000 block of Lodge Road in Fern Valley. The golden retriever household pet went out into the yard in the early morning, ate a portion of the object, which had been weighted with…
The Bee Fire was reported about 8:40 p.m., Thursday night, July 26. The was in the Bee Canyon area east of the Cranston Station. The San Jacinto Ranger District and CAL Fire Riverside Unit sent a full response. Originally, the fire’s size was estimated to be about 20 to 25 acres On Friday morning, based…
Jennifer Gee, the new director of the University of California James Reserve north of Idyllwild, is, by nature, an explorer, adventurer and trailblazer. She credits growing up in the Pacific Northwest with her love of the outdoors and her eventual decision to become a field biologist. “I started birding when I was nine….
