Over 16,750 firefighters continue working to gain containment on the 29 major wildfires across California. Firefighters across the state responded to 36 new wildfires Saturday, and all were contained quickly. Since the beginning…
The smoke in the air this morning is primarily coming from the Eldorado Fire, currently burning over 7,300 acres near Oak Glen. CalFire said the fire was caused by a smoke generating pyrotechnic device, used during a gender reveal party at…
Firefighters continue to make progress on the two dozen large wildfires and lightning complexes that have been burning over the past several weeks. Yesterday, CAL FIRE responded to 49 new initial attack wildfires all of which were contained. A…
Two large wildfires continue to smolder to the east and west of our Morongo Basin. CalFire says the Apple fire to our west is 95% contained at 33,424 acres. The Apple fire is being called calm and no imminent danger. At one time the local…
After working for 11 days on the Lake fire, north of Los Angeles, the Morongo Valley firefighters on Brush Engine 461 went straight to a new fire, the SCU Lightning Complex fire. The SCU Lightning Complex fire is the largest fire ever in…
Nearly 12,000 firefighters are battling about two dozen major fires and complexes across California. Since the lightning siege started August 15, there have been nearly 12,000 lightning strikes in the state. Since then, there have been more…
Monsoons and thunderstorms across the state—with the accompanying lightning strikes—have led to hundreds of new fires in California. California firefighters are stretched to the limit trying to fight all these fires. Reporter Heather Clisby has…
Yucca Valley firefighters responded to a small wildfire in the San Bernardino County Forest near Tip Top Mountain, west of Burns Canyon Saturday afternoon. Just before 3 p.m., witnesses in the Rimrock area north of Pioneertown and the Mountain…
A San Bernardino County Fire Battalion Chief from Yucca Valley led a strike team of five county fire engines and their crews in fighting the Apple fire in Banning, Beaumont, and Oak Glen last week. Managing editor Tami Roleff talked with the…
The last evacuation warning for the 33,234-acre Apple fire—which included Morongo Valley—was lifted Monday. The Cal Fire crews who had been staging in Morongo Valley have left the area. The blaze is now burning mostly in the San Gorgonio…
Updated August 10, 10 a.m. Many evacuation warnings for the 32,905-acre Apple fire were canceled with the blaze now mostly in the San Gorgonio Wilderness and containment at 45 percent on Monday morning. All evacuation warnings in Riverside…
Combined Fire Management reported succesful fire suppression operations has allowed fire managers to shift focus from protecting communities to working on preventing the fire footprint from growing. Resources that are no longer needed will be…
The San Bernardino unit of Cal Fire has established two new firefighter hand crews. The new hand crews’ primary mission will be the suppression of wildfires and fuels reduction in San Bernardino, Inyo, and Mono counties. Each BDU crew will…
As of Saturday night (August 8) From Unified Fire Management Current Situation: Fire activity was minimal today, with no forward progression of the perimeter. There were some areas of increased fire activity as interior islands of unburned…
Firefighters held another informational briefing about the Apple fire Friday evening in Morongo Valley, drawing a crowd of nearly 300 people, including representatives from the County Fire Department, CalFire, the County Sheriff’s Department,…
Firefighters made good progress Thursday in fighting the Apple fire that started a week ago in the Oak Glen area. The fire is now over 28,000 acres with 30 percent containment as of Thursday night. Cal Fire photo Unified Fire Command said…
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