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 stopped the spread of a small brush fire in a Fallbrook field Monday afternoon. The fire was first reported at 3:20 p.m. in a field near Alturas Road and Merida Drive, according to North County Fire Capt. John Choi. Crews arriving at the scene found an approximately 50-by-20-foot blaze and quickly surrounded it with containment lines, Choi said. Forward spread of the fire was stopped by about 3:44 p.m. No injuries were reported. Will Fritz can be reached by email at [email protected]....
Firefighters were quickly able to contain a fire that broke out Sunday in a field near homes in Fallbrook. The blaze was reported at 11:51 p.m. in an area near Los Alisos Drive and Live Oak Park Road, according to information from North County Fire Capt. John Choi. According to Choi, fire crews arrived on scene shortly after the report came in and were able to stop the forward spread of the fire, which was initially estimated to be about a quarter acre in size before being revised upward to about a half acre. Some structures...
As of Sept. 1, Fallbrook is reporting an increase of 21 coronavirus cases since the prior week. The 92028 ZIP code, which also includes the communities of De Luz and Rainbow, now has 436 total coronavirus cases as of Monday, Aug. 31, and about 0.8% of the area's population has tested positive for the virus. The Fallbrook area remains about in the middle of the county's distribution of coronavirus case rates; 92028 has the 35th highest rate of coronavirus infections per...
Sheriff's deputies are investigating a shooting that left one man injured Sunday evening in Fallbrook. The shooting took place just before 5:30 p.m. near the intersection of East Mission Road and Iowa Street, San Diego County Sheriff's Deputy Pat McEvoy said. A young adult male suffered a gunshot injury to the right leg, according to North County Fire Capt. John Choi. The man was taken to Palomar Medical Center for treatment of the non-life-threatening injury. McEvoy said sheriff's deputies were on-scene and searching for a...
Lanes of westbound state Route 76 were blocked Monday evening near North River Road in Bonsall due to an RV fire, authorities said. The vehicle fire broke out a little after 5 p.m., North County Fire Capt. John Choi said. Responding firefighters arrived at the scene to find the RV fully engulfed in flames, Choi said. It took crews about 15 minutes to get the blaze under control. At least one person was still in the vehicle when the fire was first reported, according to a...
Firefighters were responding Sunday afternoon to a small brush fire south of the Pechanga Indian Reservation and just inside San Diego County. The blaze was reported at 1:54 p.m. in the 38000 block of Magee Road, Cal Fire San Diego Capt. Kendall Bortisser said. The fire was burning about a half acre at a slow rate of spread as of about 2:10 p.m., according to Bortisser. North County Fire was providing one water tender to deal with the blaze, according to agency spokesman...
Longtime Fallbrook Union Elementary School District governing board member Patty de Jong announced she is stepping down from her position after more than 24 years. "I turned 65 this year, which is the age at which a lot of people retire, and I cannot retire from my regular job – I don't want to. But I can retire from this job," De Jong said. "My dad always told me, 'You'll know when you've had enough.' I've had enough. So effective tonight, I am resigning, or the word I p...
Longtime Fallbrook Union Elementary School District governing board member Patty de Jong announced she is stepping down from her position after more than 24 years. “I turned 65 this year, which is the age at which a lot of people retire, and I cannot retire from my regular job – I don’t want to. But I can retire from this job,” De Jong said. “My dad always told me, ‘You’ll know when you’ve had enough.’ I’ve had enough. So effective tonight, I am resigning, or the word I prefer, retiring from this position.” De Jong...
Fallbrook is reporting an increase of a few dozen more coronavirus cases recently, according to County data, while San Diego County was taken off the state of California’s coronavirus watchlist, Aug. 18. A week after San Diego County was removed from the state of California’s coronavirus watchlist, Fallbrook reported an increase of about two dozen coronavirus cases or 26 more, 415, 846.8 per 100,000. The 92028 ZIP code, which also includes the communities of De Luz and Rainbow, now has 415 total coronavirus cases as of Mon...
San Diego County was taken off the state of California's coronavirus watchlist Aug. 18, but Fallbrook continues to report an increase of a few dozen more coronavirus cases, according to county data. The 92028 ZIP code, which also includes the communities of De Luz and Rainbow, now has 389 total coronavirus cases as of Monday, Aug. 17, and 0.7% of the area's population has tested positive for the virus. That's an increase of 44 new cases since the previous week, when ZIP code...
Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar and Republican Darrell Issa, the two candidates for the 50th Congressional District seat who will face each other in the election in November, took part in a candidates forum moderated by the nonpartisan San Diego League of Women Voters Thursday, Aug. 13. Campa-Najjar and Issa each gave their positions on various issues faced by their district and the country at large, ranging from water availability to health care, during the event hosted by the...
A resident of the Rancho Monserate Country Club senior community has begun circulating a petition to call on San Diego County officials to create an alternative access point for a proposed park near the neighborhood. Cheryle Clinite said she is concerned that the planned Rio Prado Park, which will only be accessible via a road that cuts through Rancho Monserate Country Club, will create dangerous situations for older adults who cross that road to access amenities on the other...
The Fallbrook Union Elementary School District received donations and grants to support its work providing free meals to Fallbrook children during the COVID-19 pandemic at the end of previous school year and during the summer. Thousands of dollars in donations and grants helped pay for the free meals, including a $5,000 donation from T-Mobile, a $7,500 donation from the San Diego Hunger Coalition and Hunger Free Kids COVID-19 Response Team, three grants totaling $9,000 from GenYOUth and a $17,064 grant from No Kid Hungry,...
The Fallbrook Regional Health District, North County Fire Protection District and other agencies will offer drive-up coronavirus testing in Fallbrook once more this month. The health and fire districts, along with Cal Fire San Diego and in cooperation with the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency will set up a drive-up testing site from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 25, at the FRHD Wellness Center property, 1636 E. Mission Road in Fallbrook. Drive-thru testing has been conducted at the Wellness Center property...
North County Fire crews were responding Saturday afternoon to a major crash involving multiple vehicles south of Fallbrook. The four-vehicle crash was reported at 1:56 p.m. on eastbound state Route 76 just west of South Mission Road, according to North County Fire Capt. John Choi. Two people were taken by ambulance to Palomar Medical Center with serious injuries, Choi said, and an additional three were taken to local hospitals with less severe injuries. North County Fire said...
Fallbrook’s coronavirus infection rate has inched up again in the last week. The 92028 ZIP code, which also includes the communities of De Luz and Rainbow, now has 349 total coronavirus cases as of Aug. 10, and about seven-tenths of 1% of the area’s population has tested positive for the virus. That’s an increase of 45 new cases since last week, when 92028 had recorded 304 cases, or an infection rate of 620.3 cases per 100,000. The area, previously one of the least affected by the virus, began recording an uptick in infection...
San Diego County’s public health officer has announced guidance for local school districts that may opt to participate in the waiver process that could allow some TK-6 schools to reopen in counties on the statewide coronavirus monitoring list Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on July 17 that schools in counties that have been on the state’s coronavirus monitoring list may operate through distance learning only until the county has been off the state’s list for at least 14 days. In counties on the list, California Department of Pu...
School starts Monday, Aug. 17, for Fallbrook Union Elementary School District families, and district officials have hammered out many of the details of how students will start classes virtually this fall. While FUESD administrators had previously been drafting plans to return to physical classes – which called for decreased class sizes, staggered breaks and recesses, temperature checks and other measures – Gov. Gavin Newsom dashed any hopes of starting the school year in-...
Fallbrook has now recorded more than 300 coronavirus cases since March, and San Diego County public health officials reported the number of total COVID-19 cases in the region has crossed 30,000, even as other numbers appear to be improving. The total number of recorded cases in Fallbrook’s 92028 ZIP code – which also includes De Luz and Rainbow – now sits at 304, or a rate of 620.3 cases per 100,000. As of Aug. 4, the 92028 ZIP code was roughly in the middle of the county’s distribution of coronavirus infection rates – it ha...
It was decidedly not the way Shaunna and Dave Jengo had planned to spend their Saturday morning. The De Luz residents had spent the morning of July 11 driving through the area to find places for Dave to fly his drone, something the pair say they do often. It was at first a typical, uneventful Saturday adventure. They found an area off Avenida Tierra, on the Riverside County side of De Luz, where they stopped so Dave Jengo could fly his drone for what Shaunna estimated was "abo...
The Fallbrook Regional Health District’s board of directors voted Friday, July 24, to adopt the new fiscal year’s goals for the executive director. Rachel Mason, executive director of FRHD, prepared a list of goals, which was modified with input from board members. “My strategy in identifying these goals essentially had to do with thinking of our priorities as we outlined them from previous conversations, strategic planning and the budget process,” Mason said. Included among goals adopted for Mason are to finish Phase One dev...
Fallbrook is reporting 40 more coronavirus cases than a week earlier, according to San Diego County public health statistics from Monday, July 27, the same day the county reported 529 coronavirus-related hospitalizations across the region, a high for the month of July. The total number of recorded cases in Fallbrook now sits at 266, or a rate of 542 cases per 100,000. Two weeks ago, Fallbrook had a total of 181 coronavirus cases – which represented an increase of only 22 cases from a week before that – and 374.9 cases per...
The San Diego County COVID-19 total sat a little short of the 24,000 mark as of July 20 after county public health officials reported 1,193 cases over the weekend. Health officials reported 568 new cases July 19 but no new deaths, raising the county total to 23,682 cases while the death count remained at 478. The county reported 625 new cases Saturday, July 18. Of the 8,943 tests reported July 19, 6% were positive new cases. The 14- day rolling average is now 6%. The state's target is below 8% positive test rate. Three new...
For nearly 20 years now, the Fallbrook Firesafe Council has been working, free-of-charge, to educate Fallbrook residents on how to best protect their homes, their town and themselves from the ever-present threat of wildfire. According to the California Land Conservation Assistance Network, similar councils throughout the state educate their communities about wildfire preparedness and work with local fire officials to design and implement projects geared toward wildfire survivability, as well as organize fuel-reduction...
In the past two months, “defund the police” has surged into the public consciousness as a rallying cry for Black Lives Matter protesters. It is a divisive phrase, and to some, it is a misleading one. Critics see it as a call to completely dismantle law enforcement, and not without reason – even Democrats who support calls to “defund the police” have suggested that the phrase is misleading. “I don’t believe that you should disband police departments,” Congressional Black Caucus chairwoman Rep. Karen Bass told Jake Tapper on...
