by News Staff | Apr 8, 2021 | Bureau of Land Management (BLM), CAL Fire, Fire, Inyo County, Press Release, United States Forest Service
UPDATE 3 | SATURDAY | APRIL 10, 2021 | 12:30 PM Excerpt: Size: 85 acres/Containment: 90%/Incident Type: Full Suppression Vegetation Type: Brush Current Situation: Great progress has been made by using resources through the day and night. Firefighters have line all the...
by News Staff | Mar 30, 2021 | CAL Fire, Fire, General Misc. Stories, Inyo County, News Releases
All the Commotion on the West Side of Independence? You may have noticed CalFire trucks and lots of work going on behind the museum on the west side of Independence lately. This work is associated with the fire break project that the Independence Fire Safe Council...
by Community Reports/Events | Mar 3, 2021 | CAL Fire, Fire, News Releases
Incident Update as prescribed burns below Big Pine gets a little out of control. Bishop CHP Officer Otten took this photo of the fire as it was happening on Monday south of Big Pine.When CAL FIRE San Bernardino Unit announced a prescribed fire (presumably, controlled...
by News Staff | Sep 23, 2020 | CAL Fire, Fire, Heavy Smoke, News Releases, Public Health, United States Forest Service
Message from John “Pancho” Smith, Acting Forest Supervisor, Inyo National Forest” Good morning: Over the past few days, the Inyo National Forest has been looking at options to re-open the Forest in a modified manner and we have shared that tentative...
by Community Reports/Events | Sep 23, 2020 | CAL Fire, Fire, United States Forest Service
A firefighter who died fighting the El Dorado Fire last Thursday, Sept. 17, has been identified by officials on Monday, Sept. 21, as Charlie Morton, 39 years old. Morton worked as a firefighter for 18 years, starting in 2002. He was a leader of the Big Bear...
by Deb Murphy | Sep 22, 2020 | CAL Fire, Fire, Heavy Smoke, Public Health, Town of Mammoth Lakes, United States Forest Service
The Town of Mammoth Lakes hosted a zoom update on the Creek Fire with representatives from all the involved agencies Tuesday evening. CLICK TO WATCH. In a nutshell: Things are looking better than they did late last week as the northeast edge of the fire is behaving...