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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Firefighters were able to knock down a blaze that erupted in the kitchen of a Fallbrook apartment Tuesday evening. A call came in at 7:41 p.m. reporting the fire at Pine View Apartments on Alturas Road north of Ammunition Road, according to North County Fire Protection District Capt. John Choi. When fire crews arrived at the apartment complex, they found smoke emanating from a second-story window, Choi said. The crews headed into the affected apartment unit and discovered a fire on the stove in the apartment's kitchen. Choi...
North County firefighters were able to quickly extinguish a small fire that burned two trees in an area along East Fallbrook Street late Sunday morning. The fire was reported a little before 11:15 a.m. in the 1200 block of E. Fallbrook Street, according to North County Fire Capt. John Choi. The area is near Zion Lutheran Church and School. Crews had the fire out within about 15 minutes. It was contained to a 20-foot-by-30-foot spot, Choi said. He said utility crews were...
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 and water hydrant, then went airborne before coming to rest on its left side. The driver...
The month of January marks a historic shift for the community of Rainbow – the Rainbow Fire Station, operated by volunteer firefighters for decades, will now be entirely run by full-time North County Fire Protection District personnel for the first time. The Rainbow Volunteer Fire Department was first formed in 1967, and while it merged with North County Fire in 1987, it has continued to be run as a separate volunteer force under the oversight of the larger fire district u...
Local hospitals in North County and Southwest Riverside County hospitals are nearly full, and intensive care units are slammed with patients as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage, according to the latest data from the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Per data released on Jan. 3, 51% of patients at Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, the closest San Diego County hospital to Fallbrook, were positive for COVID-19. In addition, 45% of patients at Temecula Valley Hospital, 53% of patients at...
A fire damaged a room at a Fallbrook hotel Wednesday night and is being investigated by sheriff's detectives, a North County Fire Protection District spokesman said. The fire was reported just after 6 p.m. at the Econo Lodge in the 1600 block of S. Mission Road, according to North County Fire Capt. John Choi. Crews were at the scene within about 10 minutes, and the fire was contained by 6:24 p.m., Choi said. One person was evaluated for minor injuries but did not require medical attention. The San Diego Sheriff's Department...
Fallbrook Union Elementary School District students returned to all-virtual learning on Jan. 5, and will continue to learn distantly for a two-week buffer period after winter break before students in transitional kindergarten through first grade, to be followed by students in second and third grades as well as special education students, will be allowed to return to classrooms part-time five days a week. The FUESD board approved the district’s Phase Three reopening plan at its Dec. 14 meeting. Prior to winter break, s...
San Diego County public health officials have reported 3,520 new cases of COVID-19 and no new deaths as of Jan. 3, bringing the county's totals to 168,020 cases and 1,592 deaths. Jan. 3's cases marked the 34th consecutive day with more than 1,000 new infections, and the 25th overall with more than 2,000 new cases. It is the ninth time the 3,000-case mark has been crossed. A record 4,478 cases were reported Jan. 1. Of 14,419 tests reported Jan. 3, 24% returned positive, bringing the 14-day average rolling average to 12.5%....
The first known case of a new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus in California was found in a San Diego County patient, a county supervisor confirmed Wednesday, Dec. 30. San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher said at the county's coronavirus briefing Wednesday afternoon that the variant had been detected in a 30-year-old man who developed COVID-19 symptoms on Dec. 27 and tested positive for the coronavirus on Tuesday. Fletcher said a Scripps...
The first known case of a new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus in California was found in a San Diego County patient, a county supervisor confirmed Wednesday. San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher said at the county's coronavirus briefing Wednesday afternoon that the variant had been detected in a 30-year-old man who developed COVID-19 symptoms on Dec. 27 and tested positive for the coronavirus on Tuesday. Fletcher said a Scripps Research lab...
It may be a new week and nearly a new year, but the story remains much the same: coronavirus cases are still going up locally. San Diego County public health officials on Sunday, Dec. 27, reported 3,132 new COVID-19 infections – the 27th consecutive day with more than 1,000 cases. There were no new virus-related deaths reported, but Dec. 27 was, however, the 19th day with more than 2,000 new cases. Another 50 people also were hospitalized, according to Dec. 27's data, and seven new patients were sent to intensive care units....
There's really no other way to put it: 2020 has been a crazy year. From elections, to the wildfires that are an ever-present danger here in Southern California, to the raging pandemic that has upended all of our lives, there has simply been a lot of news to cover. There is not nearly enough room in this newspaper to do all of it justice, and indeed, it has often felt like there was not enough time to cover it all. All of that said, I have put together some thoughts on six of w...
A large brush fire that broke out in De Luz late Dec. 23 spread into Camp Pendleton and triggered mandatory evacuations in Fallbrook early Dec. 24 – an unwelcome Christmas Eve surprise for the thousands of Fallbrook residents who were forced to leave their homes. The fire's size had been expanded to more than 3,000 acres acres with 0% containment on Thursday morning, but authorities said at the time that firefighters had encircled the blaze and expected to control it. By D...
A large brush fire that broke out in De Luz late Wednesday night spread into Camp Pendleton and triggered mandatory evacuations in Fallbrook early Thursday morning. The fire's size had been expanded to 3,050 acres with 0% containment on Thursday morning, but authorities said firefighters had encircled the blaze and expected to control it. Homes along much of the northwestern corner of Fallbrook were under evacuation orders on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, as the blaze...
Firefighters had to pull a person out of an overturned vehicle in Bonsall Wednesday afternoon. A Toyota pickup truck was involved in a single-vehicle crash that left the pickup on its side around 2:20 p.m. near West Lilac Road and Camino Del Rey, according to information from the North County Fire Protection District. The pickup apparently struck a tree just prior to rolling over, according to North County Fire Capt. John Choi. The westbound lane of Camino Del Rey was blocked...
Reported coronavirus cases are continuing to surge in the Fallbrook area and San Diego County, with the top four highest numbers of new daily infections since the start of the pandemic being reported in the last week. San Diego County public health officials on Sunday, Dec. 20, reported 3,493 COVID-19 infections and no new deaths, bringing the county's total to 126,465 cases and the death toll remaining at 1,280. Prior to that report, a record 3,611 COVID-19 infections were reported Friday, Dec. 18. The cases surpassed the...
Fallbrook Union Elementary School District students will return to all-virtual learning for a two week period after the upcoming two-week winter break, after which students in transitional kindergarten through third grade, as well as special education students, will be allowed to return to classrooms part-time five days a week. The FUESD board approved the district’s Phase Three reopening plan at its Dec. 14 meeting. Currently, students in grades TK-1 are on campus for half-days Monday through Thursday and learn virtually o...
A new era has begun on the Fallbrook Union Elementary School District's Governing Board. FUESD Board President Siegrid Stillman and Board Vice President Lisa Masten, both longtime board members, attended their last board meeting Nov. 30, and new board members Suzanne Lundin and Ricardo Favela were sworn in Dec. 14. Their inaugurations mark a big change for the board: it's now composed entirely of fresh faces, with the most experienced members – Caron Lieber and Susan Liebes ...
Coronavirus cases are continuing to climb in the Fallbrook area and the greater San Diego region, showing few signs of abating as the very first doses of regulator-approved vaccines begin to roll out locally for use by the military and high-risk groups like medical personnel. The weekly average case rate for the 92028 ZIP code – which also includes De Luz and Rainbow – was 20.7 cases per 100,000 for the most recent week available, Nov. 22-28. The case rate had been 17.8 cases per 100,000 the prior week, and 12.2 cases per 100...
As San Diego County and the rest of Southern California continues to trend upward in coronavirus cases, new data released by the federal Department of Health and Human Services last week painted a clearer picture of just how full hospitals are locally and across the country. The HHS released detailed data Tuesday, Dec. 8, on hospitals’ number of occupied beds, ICU capacity, number of confirmed and suspected coronavirus patients and more. In North San Diego County and Southwest Riverside County, the data show hospitals are c...
Santa Ana winds have long been the cause of headaches for avocado growers, and the winds experienced in Southern California the first week of December – which also caused public safety power shutoffs in Fallbrook and elsewhere – were no different. One De Luz grower said the winds knocked a significant chunk of the fruit off her trees. "I have quite a few trees that have no fruit on them at all," the grower said. "I wouldn't say half my grove has no fruit but there are pro...
Fallbrook Union Elementary School District students will return to all-virtual learning for a two week period after the upcoming two-week winter break, after which students in transitional kindergarten through third grade, as well as special education students, will be allowed to return to classrooms part-time five days a week. The FUESD board approved the district’s Phase Three reopening plan at its Dec. 14 meeting. Currently, students in grades TK-1 are on campus for half-days Monday through Thursday and learn virtually o...
Gusty Santa Ana winds and low humidity combined to heighten the risk of wildfires last week and more than 70,000 local utility customers – including more than 4,000 in and around Fallbrook – lost power Thursday, Dec. 3, their electricity shut off as a precaution. Nearly 2,000 customers in the Fallbrook area remained without power Friday, but most regained power by Sunday. "Due to updated reports from the National Weather Service and SDG&E, we are anticipating continued hig...
One Fallbrook business owner is sounding the alarm about what he says is an outbreak of burglaries in the area. Eric Heyneman, owner of Fallbrook Auto Works, says he is trying to organize local businesses to solve the problem. “All the businesses in town are getting hit all the time, it’s happening almost every other day,” he said. “I want to set up a meeting with the county supervisors, the sheriff’s department, all of that.” He said, speaking for himself, his business has been broken into “probably a total of 24 times” in...
Fallbrook Union Elementary School District will be losing two long-serving Governing Board members to retirement this month, and district staff and fellow board members took time at their last board meeting, Nov. 30, to honor the two. Neither Board President Siegrid Stillman nor Board Member Lisa Masten, who herself is a former board president, sought re-election in 2020. Stillman has served on the board since 2012, while Masten has served since 2004. “We all said we’re gonna try to do this without tearing up if we can...