By DOUGLAS W. MOTLEY Senior Writer On Dec. 18, 2020, while traveling home from a 12-hour duty shift at the Emergency Communications Center in San Bernardino, off-duty Cal Fire Communications Officer Barbara Loescher found herself at the scene of a fatal head-on...
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Cal Fire-Brett Taylor
Fire knows no jurisdictions Fire agencies support one another with mutual aid By Mary-Justine Lanyon County Fire. Cal Fire. The U.S. Forest Service. And then there are the local fire departments like Running Springs and Arrowbear Lake. Who serves which areas?...
Attracting coyotes endangers the neighborhood
By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY Staff Writer Forest wildlife sightings have become more frequent recently, with the most often reported sightings coyotes and bears. Some mountain residents are often careless with how they maintain their food, trash and garbage disposal. That...
Fire lookout recruiting
PHOTO: Fire lookout recruiting 1 Kathy Rossler, Ray Villa and Diane Witter, all fire lookout hosts at Strawberry Peak, were at Goodwin & Son’s Market last year to recruit new hosts. Another such event will take place on Jan. 12. (File photo) PHOTO: The view from the...