Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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Sheriff's deputies are investigating a shooting in Fallbrook that left a man dead Sunday night. The San Diego County Sheriff's Department received a report at about 8:20 .m. Sunday of a multi-vehicle car crash on Alta Vista Drive just north of Via Monserate, and deputies headed to the scene to find a man who had been shot. Medics took the man to a local hospital, where the man was pronounced dead. The victim was later identified as 62-year-old David Nathaniel Caballero, according to the sheriff's department. An autopsy...
Vaccine shortages countywide mean that Fallbrook vaccination events will likely be delayed at least for another week. The Fallbrook Regional Health District said in an email announcement Feb. 22 that it was still awaiting county notice before its vaccination events can be rescheduled. A vaccination event had originally been scheduled for Feb. 19. Health district CEO Rachel Mason said in the update that FRHD was connecting with two additional community partners to start organizing new vaccination clinic options when vaccines...
A paramedic helicopter had to land on Interstate 15 near Fallbrook Monday afternoon, Feb. 22, to rescue a motorcyclist who was badly hurt in a crash, resulting in the closure of the northbound side of the freeway for about 20 minutes. The biker was taken to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, but was pronounced dead in the emergency room, a North County Fire official said. An investigation of the crash caused traffic delays on northbound I-15 near state Route 76 into the...
Coronavirus case rates continued their decline locally in San Diego County, while ongoing vaccine shipment delays forced the closure of one county-run vaccination superstation on Monday, Feb. 22, while other vaccination stations are offering second doses only. In the 92028 ZIP code, which includes Rainbow and De Luz, county data shows a case rate of 24.5 coronavirus cases per 100,000 during the week of Jan. 31-Feb. 6, the most recent week for which data is available – down from 42.0 the prior week. There were 84 new r...
A paramedic helicopter had to land on Interstate 15 near Fallbrook Monday afternoon to rescue a motorcyclist who was badly hurt in a crash, resulting in the closure of the northbound side of the freeway for about 20 minutes. The biker — whose identity was not immediately available — was taken to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, but was pronounced dead in the emergency room, a North County Fire official said. An investigation of the crash was continuing to cause tra...
Slowly but surely, the Fallbrook Land Conservancy is putting the work into turning part of Monserate Mountain into a bit more hospitable of a place for the critters that call it home – and by extension making it a little more beautiful for the humans who visit it. The land conservancy is in the process of giving the bottom portion of the trail through the preserve, located just east of Interstate 15 near the Horse Ranch Creek development, something of a "facelift," FLC b...
The number of new coronavirus cases is continuing to drop in San Diego County, though the county was facing a vaccine shortage as of press time Feb. 15 due to a delayed Moderna shipment. The San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency reported 13,700 tests Sunday, Feb. 14. The 14-day rolling average of positive tests was 4%. The total number of cases was reported to be 252,250 on Feb. 14 and the death toll rose to 3,037. Eight community outbreaks were reported Feb. 14, bringing the total over the past week to 62. There...
One person was seriously hurt in a crash on South Mission Road in Fallbrook Saturday morning, Feb. 13. A full-size van and a minivan struck each other in a partial head-on collision a little before 9:15 a.m. on South Mission Road at Green Canyon Road, according to North County Fire Protection District spokesperson Capt. John Choi. One of the vehicles sustained "major damage" in the crash, and one of the drivers had to be taken to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido with injuries that were described as "not life threatening,...
Local hospitals are continuing to show declines in COVID-19 hospitalizations and ICU patients, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, with the numbers as of Feb. 7 dropping substantially from those released the prior week. While coronavirus-positive patients still make up an abnormally large share of patients at Southwest Riverside County and North San Diego County hospitals – after all, in a normal year in the past, the number of patients with COVID-19 would be zero – the cor...
A shortage of vaccines countywide led to the cancellation of a vaccination event to be hosted by the Fallbrook Regional Health District this week and created issues for other vaccination sites around the San Diego region. “Due to a lack of vaccines at the county level, our Feb. 19 vaccination event in Fallbrook has been postponed,” the Fallbrook Regional Health District said in an email announcement Friday, Feb. 12. The health district said it is “reaching out to other partners and providers to see if an alternate optio...
One person was seriously hurt in a crash on South Mission Road in Fallbrook Saturday morning. A full-size van and a minivan struck each other in a partial head-on collision a little before 9:15 a.m. on South Mission Road at Green Canyon Road, according to North County Fire Protection District spokesperson Capt. John Choi. One of the vehicles sustained "major damage," in the crash, and one of the drivers had to be taken to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido with injuries that were described as "not life threatening, but...
The current wave of the coronavirus pandemic appears to be ebbing in San Diego County, with new infections down locally and countywide, and hospitalizations declining as well. A total of 926 new cases reported on Feb. 2 broke a 63-day streak with more than 1,000 cases, though the number edged back up above 1,000 to come in at 1,598 new cases two days later on Feb. 4. Another 1,230 new cases were reported on Feb. 7. Feb. 7’s report pushed the aggregate coronavirus numbers in the county to 246,564 cases and 2,821 deaths from t...
A fire that tore through a house in De Luz late Thursday night, Feb. 4, left one person without a home to safely go back to, a North County Fire Protection District spokesperson said Friday, Feb. 5. The blaze was reported a little after 10:45 p.m. at a two-story house in the 41000 block of Gavilan Road, North County Fire Capt. John Choi said. Firefighters arrived about 15 minutes later to find "extensive fire conditions," and while they were able to contain the fire to the...
Local hospitals are finally starting to show clear, consistent declines in COVID-19 hospitalizations in the latest data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, though coronavirus patients still make up a significant percentage of those hospitalized in Riverside and San Diego counties. While some local hospitals showed declines in coronavirus hospitalizations in data from two weeks ago, others showed slight increases. The data released by federal health officials Feb. 1 is the first time coronavirus hospi...
A fire that tore through a house in De Luz late Thursday night left one person without a home to safely go back to, a North County Fire Protection District spokesperson said this morning. The blaze was reported a little after 10:45 p.m. at a two-story house in the 41000 block of Gavilan Road, North County Fire Capt. John Choi said. Firefighters arrived about 15 minutes later to find "extensive fire conditions," and while they were able to contain the fire to the home's second...
A new “Vaccination Super Station” has opened in North County at California State University San Marcos while the San Diego region continues to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic. The Super Station opened on Jan. 31 and has the capability to vaccinate up to 5,000 people per day, according to county officials, although anyone who wishes to be vaccinated at the facility must make an appointment online at www.vaccinationsuperstationsd.com. Hospitalizations are declining in the region; as of Saturday, Jan. 30, there were 1,3...
It’s little surprise: while COVID-19 hospitalizations are down at some local hospitals, they rose at others in the latest data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and coronavirus patients continue to make up an extraordinary percentage of those hospitalized in Riverside and San Diego counties. Coronavirus patients are in fact a majority of patients at all Southwest Riverside County hospitals except one, as well as at Palomar Medical Center Escondido, the closest San Diego County hospital to F...
Some Fallbrook residents are sounding the alarm about speeding problems in their area. Neighbors along Gum Tree Lane say they have been concerned for years, but their worries were realized with a dangerous crash on New Year's Day. The crash was "exactly at the spot we thought it would happen," said Tom Winter. "Gum Tree and Autumn Rose." The crash, he said, happened when a speeding driver who was coming over a hill in the area – and thus blind to the road conditions ahead ...
Area residents and firefighters turned out Sunday morning, Jan. 24, to honor 54-year-old Temecula resident and Rancho Santa Fe Fire Capt. Chris Mertz, who died Jan. 20, from complications related to COVID-19. Mertz's family and Rancho Santa Fe Fire Protection District personnel were present at Temecula Valley Hospital as his body was transferred to a waiting hearse, which they followed in a procession escorted by the California Highway Patrol to Miller-Jones Mortuary in...
San Diego County has now administered nearly 200,000 coronavirus vaccinations, and more than 30,000 people, about 1% of the county’s population, have received both doses of the vaccine as of Jan. 21, but there are no locations to get vaccinated in the Fallbrook area as of yet. San Diego County is currently vaccinating virtually all healthcare workers, and expanded vaccinations to all residents over the age of 65 on Jan. 23. The Fallbrook Regional Health District said last week it was working with its partner, North County F...
As the current wave of the coronavirus pandemic drags on, hospitals are still seeing markedly high levels of COVID-19-infected patients. At all southwest Riverside County hospitals and Fallbrook’s nearest San Diego County hospital, a majority of hospitalized patients were coronavirus-positive, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Sunday, Jan. 17; per that data, 55% of patients at Temecula Valley Hospital; 59% of patients at Southwest Healthcare System, which includes Inland Valley a...
Fallbrook Union Elementary School District students were able to return to part-time in-person classes last week, and some grades will be able to attend in-person classes five days a week starting next month. After returning from winter break in an all-virtual format on Jan. 5, students in transitional kindergarten through first grade headed back to a part-time in-person format four days a week on Tuesday, Jan. 19, while students in all other grades headed back to a...
The average number of new daily cases in the Fallbrook area has gone up again after county data last week showed it had declined for the first time since the start of the current coronavirus wave. The weekly average case rate for the 92028 ZIP code, which also includes De Luz and Rainbow, was 88.9 cases per 100,000 for the most recent week available, Dec. 27-Jan. 2. It had been 72.0 cases per 100,000 in the previous week, Dec. 20-26, having dropped from 79.9 cases per 100,000 between Dec. 13-19. There were 305 new positive...
One person was killed in a single-vehicle crash late Wednesday night in Bonsall. About 11:50 p.m., an Acura sedan overturned into a ditch near the intersection of Camino Del Rey and Old River Road, according to North County Fire Protection District spokesperson Capt. John Choi. Per a statement from the California Highway Patrol, the Acura left the roadway to the right, impacted a bollard (post) and water hydrant, then went airborne before coming to rest on its left side. The driver of the Acura, a 21-year-old Fallbrook man,...
Local hospitals are continuing to see high levels of coronavirus patients, with two out of three Southwest Riverside County medical centers reporting increases in patients testing positive for COVID-19 in the latest data from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, though the nearest San Diego County hospital to Fallbrook showed a slight drop in COVID-19-positive patients. According to HHS data released Jan. 10, 56% of patients at Temecula Valley Hospital, 57% of patients at Southwest Healthcare System...
