June 2010

San Bernardino County fire officials will be on the lookout for people using fireworks in the San Bernardino Mountains this weekend. Fire officials said it’s one of the busiest weekends of the year for the San Bernardino National Forest, with two public fireworks displays scheduled in Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear Lake. But firefighters say [...]

Firefighters extinguished a fire Monday in a space often occupied by the homeless under the 210 Freeway near Lakeview Terrace and Sunland. Firefighters responded to a call at 5:33 a.m. of smoke under the western terminus of the Tujunga Wash bridge, said Brian Humphrey, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department. Because no one [...]

RAMONA —- Firefighters on Sunday assisted five dehydrated hikers whose two dogs had been bitten by a rattlesnake, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. The hikers were about a half-mile up the Cedar Creek Falls trail in the Cleveland National Forest, just east of the San Diego Country Estates, [...]

A Tulare County Firefighter, Pat Hines, is in critical condition. A hit and run driver used their pickup truck to run over two South Valley Firefighters. The other firefighter suffered from injuries, but is okay. It happened just after midnight of Saturday in the outskirts of Alpaugh. Pat Hines is in his mid-50′s and was [...]