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…
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…
With the nearby Apple fire now 90% contained at 33,424 acres, a post-fire assessment has already begun. A Forest Service Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) team was established by the San Bernardino National Forest to begin a burned area…
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…
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…
The Unified Fire Command has announced the lifting of Evacuation warnings for Pioneertown and Rimrock. Several Apple Fire Evacuation Warnings Lifted Several successful firefighting operations around the perimeter of the Apple Fire have…
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…
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…
Firefighters held another informational brief Thursday about the Apple fire, this time in Pioneertown. More than 200 people showed up for the briefing, which firefighters said was their largest crowd ever. Firefighters were generally optimistic…
The Morongo Valley Fire Department issued an evacuation warning about noon Thursday. The Apple fire is still about 8 to 10 miles from Morongo Valley. This evacuation warning is similar to what was issued earlier this week for residents of…
The Apple fire, ignited by hot debris from a vehicle’s faulty exhaust in Cherry Valley July 31, has destroyed 12 structures, four of them homes, authorities said Tuesday, (August 4), as the blaze continued to move north and east deeper into the…
When the Water fire in the Whitewater Preserve flared up Sunday afternoon, many residents in Pioneertown and Rimrock were surprised to hear that they should prepare for the possibility of evacuation. Crews got the Water fire under control…
The Water fire at the Whitewater Preserve burned about 70 acres Sunday afternoon. Cal Fire photo And another fire broke out Sunday, this one closer to the Morongo Basin in Whitewater Preserve, called the Water fire. Crews gained control of…
A fire that broke out in the Whitewater Preserve area today and grew to 70 acres is under control. Fire Crews are mopping up and it poses no danger at this time.
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