A chance to learn about community fire safety and evacuation plans The Mountain Area Safety Taskforce will hold its first meeting of 2025 at the Idyllwild Nature Center on Wednesday, March 12. The event will bring together representatives of all the agencies, governmental and nonprofits, engaged in preventing and responding to wildfire in our community….
Local fire officials held their Mountain Area Safety Taskforce meeting last week, about one year after the Mountain Fire. No fires were burning on the Hill and the local agencies were working on fire prevention and protection projects in the middle of the current fire season. Enforcement of abatement requirements on vacant lots on the…
The Mountain Area Safety Taskforce meeting at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 12 at the Nature Center is a working meeting of professional responders and is not open to the general public except by specific invitation, according to Kevin Turner, GSOB coordinator at UCR and CAL FIRE Forest Battalion Chief Gregg Bratcher. They have requested the…
While the Mountain Area Safety Taskforce is reviewing its goals and objectives, the group is preparing for the 2012 fire season, which may be longer and drier than recent years. Revising Goals and Objectives The members began revising the objectives at the November meeting. The current set was developed in 2003 in response to the…