The woman killed in a fatal motorcycle collision in Yucca Valley has been identified. On Thursday (February 8) 12:45, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department responded to a report that a motorcycle had collided into a light pole on Twentynine Palms Highway near Kickapoo Trail. They report that Melanie Fontes, a 49 year old resident of Gardena, lost control of her motorcycle, colliding into a light pole in the 55400 block of Twentynine Palms Highway.  The rider was pronounced dead at…

On last week’s Z107.7 Up Close Show, host Gary Daigneault spoke with County Fire Chief Dan Munsey and County Board of Supervisors Chairman Dawn Rowe. Chief Munsey discussed the future of the Yucca Valley Fire Station. A new location was considered for the station, but Chief Munsey said “You look around Yucca Valley and see all this vacant land, and you’d think it would be easy to find a place to build a fire station. We use very sophisticated modeling to predict where the calls will be, and we…

On last week’s Z107.7 Up Close Show, host Gary Daigneault spoke with County Fire Chief Dan Munsey and County Board of Supervisors Chairman Dawn Rowe. Chief Munsey discussed the future of the Desert Heights fire station, the currently inactive Fire Station #43 on Lear Ave in Twentynine Palms. Currently a training facility leased to Copper Mountain College, Munsey said that the station is being prepared to a return to service. Munsey said "Over the past year, the Fire District has invested in…