Yucaipa News

A 12-year-old boy suffered a broken leg and nose, along with other injuries when he was struck by a car in a Yucaipa crosswalk Thursday.

Authorities are pulling crews from the Yucaipa and Oak Glen fire areas as they come closer to containing the wildfires that blackened more than 2,000 acres of dense brush and injured four firefighters.

The county will not release its findings from an administrative investigation into allegations of malfeasance by San Bernardino County Fire Chief Pat Dennen and Deputy Fire Chief Dan Wurl.

A relentless Southern California wildfire raged Tuesday with 53 homes up in smoke, thousands more threatened and new rounds of evacuations as towering flames crackled close to neighborhoods on the northern and southern flanks.

Cal Fire is hitting the 640 acre Pendleton Fire as skillfully as they put down the adjacent 1,000 acre Oak Glen incident the day before.

YUCAIPA - Firefighters late Tuesday reported progress in battling two wildfires in San Bernardino County.

The man, Victor John Partnoff, 20, was in full traumatic arrest when paramedics arrived at the crash scene.

Two small fires broke in Yucaipa on Tuesday evening, one of which officials say was arson.

Thunderstorms are expected to move into the fire-ravaged Yucaipa and Oak Glen areas this evening, bringing mixed blessings for firefighters battling two blazes that have burned more than 1,800 combined acres.

Firefighters reported progress Tuesday against a gigantic blaze on the edge of Los Angeles that might be just a preview of even greater dangers ahead.

Firefighters battling the Oak Glen Fire are up against thickets of dry and dead shrubs and small trees that haven't burned in 85 years.

A wildfire in San Bernardino County has flared up because of rising winds and 900 homes are now threatened.

Share + Sep 1, 2009 7:59 am US/Pacific Fire Watch: Complete Coverage Fire Maps Evacuation Information OAK GLEN, Calif.

Bill and Barbara Brown sat in the banquet room of the Yucaipa Community Center on Monday evening, waiting to hear the words they most wanted to hear.

A small fire has erupted on the edge of Yucaipa in San Bernardino County, threatening six homes and burning about five miles from a 1,000-acre fire.

A tangle of dry, heavy brush provided enough fuel for a wildfire to generate 100-foot high flames as it burned Sunday along a ridge line south of here.

Mandatory Evacuations for the south and southeast portions of Oak Glen. Voluntary for other areas of Oak Glen.

Firefighters on Sunday all but extinguished the Morris Fire in the Angeles National Forest north of Azusa and Glendora.

Another Southern California wildfire has forced about 100 people to evacuate in San Bernardino County near Yucaipa.

Incident commanders on that fire burning near Potato Canyon Road and Oak Glen Road in Yucaipa are talking about evacuating the mountain town of Oak Glen, says Cal Fire communications supervisor Jason Meyer.