by News Staff | Sep 8, 2020 | Fire, Government Agencies/Utilities, News Releases
Supervisors act to prohibit open fires include campfires, bonfires, fire pits, or any other open flame fire (but do not include propane or charcoal barbecues used for cooking) during this extreme fire danger seen throughout the state. Loading... Taking too long?...
by News Staff | Sep 8, 2020 | California Highway Patrol, Fire, General Misc. Stories, Law Enforcement, News Releases, Press Release
On 09/08/2020 at approximately 7:05 AM, a 22-year-old male from Bakersfield, CA, was driving a 2008 Dodge Avenger westbound on SR-190 approximately 2 miles east of SR-136. For unknown reasons, he allowed his vehicle to drift off the roadway onto the south dirt...
by News Staff | Sep 8, 2020 | Fire, Government Agencies/Utilities, Heavy Smoke, National Weather Service, News Releases, Press Release, Public Health, Weather
The one thing that most firefighters will tell you is that they could do without is wind. Hopefully, things will not get completely out of control in what is turning out to be a devastating fire season here in California. How and where you can find the most complete...
by News Staff | Sep 7, 2020 | CAL Fire, California Highway Patrol, Fire, General Misc. Stories, Inyo County Sheriff's Office, News Releases
Sept. 5, 2020, First reported on BPVFD Facebook Post) Big Pine Fire responded with two SXS to Sugarloaf Mtn and Little Onion Valley for a single vehicle rollover with injuries. Sierra Wave spoke with Fire Chief Damon Carrington. He was first on the scene after...
by News Staff | Aug 30, 2020 | Federal government, Fire, Government Agencies/Utilities, News Releases, United States Forest Service
The USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, and the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) have coordinated with the Department of Defense for the deployment of approximately 200 active-duty soldiers, to include command staff, to help with wildfire suppression...
by News Staff | Aug 26, 2020 | Fire, Inyo County
Residents in the Independence, Lone Pine and Olancha/Cartago area have been noticing smoke and ash for a few days now. The reason is, according to a press release today from the PIO Officer, Debra Schweizer, for the Inyo National Forest Service is that there is a fire...
