Crews are working to contain a wildfire in San Bernardino which has shut down Highway 18 from Highway 138 to 40th Street. The fire started around 11:00 a.m. at 3-5 acres and as of 1:50 p.m. it’s 34 acres. Highway 18 will remain closed for several hours. There is also an immediate structure threat. The […]
A two-acre brush fire broke out Friday afternoon in rugged terrain near the Pinyon Pines area of the San Bernardino National Forest. There was no word on what sparked the blaze, which was reported about 3:30 p.m. in the Santa Rosa Wilderness, southeast of Highway 74 and Scenic Drive. The fire in Pinyon Pines area […]
A wildfire that charred 341 acres and destroyed two homes in the Pinyon Pines area of the San Bernardino National Forest was 80% contained Wednesday. Crews are continuing to work within rocky terrain to encircle the blaze amid triple-digit temperatures stemming from a heat wave that will continue to bear down on Southern California throughout […]
UPDATE: According to the San Bernardino National Forest Service the Flats Fire is now 85 percent contained and State Highway 74 is reopened. As a sweltering heat wave continues to siege Southern California, a 400-acre wildfire that destroyed two homes in the Pinyon Pines area of the San Bernardino National Forest was 60% […]
About 400 firefighters worked through the night and into Monday to put out a 400-acre brushfire in the Pinyon Pines area of the San Bernardino National Forest that destroyed two homes and prompted mandatory evacuations. The fire was first reported about 11:05 a.m. Sunday west of the Pinyon Flat campground in the Santa Rosa and […]
A motorist killed in a Memorial Day head-on collision caused by a wrong-way driver on Highway 62 near Whitewater was identified Tuesday as a 45-year-old Landers man. Clinton Palmquist was pronounced dead at the scene of the collision, which was reported about 10:10 p.m. Monday just east of Dillon Road and remains under investigation. A […]
The California Highway Patrol will ramp up operations on highways, freeways and roads throughout Riverside County beginning Friday evening and continuing through the Memorial Day weekend to snare drunken and other unsafe drivers as part of a statewide campaign. Beginning at 6 p.m. Friday, the CHP will initiate its holiday weekend “maximum enforcement period,” during […]
