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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Update: 4 p.m., March 8 North County Fire reported Olive Hill Road was open as of 4 p.m. Original story: FALLBROOK - North County Fire Protection District announced on social media at 2 p.m. Friday, March 8 that North County firefighters were at the location of a fallen tree that blocked the roadway on Olive Hill Road and Aqua Hill. North County Fire expected the road to be closed until 4 p.m.... Full story
FALLBROOK - A motorcyclist was gravely injured on Friday, March 8 when a large wind-buffeted tree toppled onto him as he was riding in Fallbrook. The freak traffic accident occurred near the intersection of West Elder Street and South Mission Road in Fallbrook shortly after 2 p.m., according to the North County Fire Protection District. Medics airlifted the man to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido for treatment of life-threatening injuries, NCFPD Capt. John Choi said. Two...
DE LUZ - It took emergency crews nearly an hour Wednesday, March 6 to rescue a severely injured motorist whose car veered off a rain-slick rural road in De Luz and plunged about 100 feet down a steep, brushy embankment. The four-door sedan crashed off Sandia Creek Drive north of Rock Mountain Road in De Luz about 3 p.m., said John Choi, a fire captain with North County Fire Protection District. Emergency personnel used ropes to get to the spot where the vehicle came to rest, freed the driver from the wreckage and hoisted the...
BONSALL - A motorcyclist suffered serious injuries on Tuesday, March 5 in a multi-vehicle crash involving a box truck in Bonsall. The collision happened shortly before 7:45 a.m. on southbound Interstate 15 north of Gopher Canyon Road, California Highway Patrol Officer Jim Bettencourt said. The unidentified motorcyclist was taken to Palomar Medical Center with major injuries, he said. CHP officers were investigating the circumstances leading up to the crash.... Full story
UPDATE: North County Fire Protection District reported at 12:26 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26, that South Mission Road is now fully open and San Diego Gas & Electric has mitigated the down power line. On Tuesday, Feb. 26, firefighters were on the scene of a rescue traffic collision with down power lines at 6:52 p.m. North County Fire reported early Wednesday morning a hard closure of South Mission Road from the 5000 block of South Mission Road and State Route 76 while utility workers were in the process of restoring the power... Full story
DE LUZ - A 72-year-old motorcyclist was fatally injured on Wednesday, Feb. 20 when he lost control of his bike and crashed on a street just west of Temecula, authorities said on Thursday, Feb. 21. The victim, identified only as a Fallbrook resident, died shortly after the crash Wednesday morning on Sycamore Creek Drive, near Avenida de Oro, in an unincorporated community known as De Luz, according to the California Highway Patrol. Officer Mike Lassig said the victim was... Full story
DE LUZ - North County Fire Protection District reported a traffic collision at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12 in the area of Sandia Creek Drive and W. Sandia Creek Terrace that resulted in a car going off the roadway and trapping the driver inside. About an hour after firefighters arrived, the patient was extricated, hauled up the hillside and transported to a local hospital. Firefighters were dealing with getting the truck out of the drainage and diesel fuel leakage was coming... Full story
On Thursday, Feb. 14, at approximately 9:33 a.m., a vehicle struck a California Highway Patrol vehicle that was assisting a motorist from a previous collision. The patrol vehicle was stopped within the center divider area on I-15 Northbound south of State Route 76, waiting for a tow truck to assist with the previous collision. A white Honda Civic being driven by a 22-year-old female from Palm Springs approached the location of the patrol vehicle within the No. 1 lane. For reasons that are still under investigation, the... Full story
BONSALL - A man died after being found critically injured on a North County roadway late Friday, apparently a victim of a hit-and-run crash, an officer said on Saturday, Feb. 2. A passing driver noticed an unconscious man lying in the east shoulder of Old Highway 395, just south of Camino Del Rey in Bonsall, around 11 p.m. Friday and pulled over, according to California Highway Patrol Sgt. Eric Nicholas. The area is just east of Interstate 15. The motorist, a responding CHP... Full story
No matter who you're rooting for on Super Bowl Sunday, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department wants to remind everyone about the dangers of impaired driving. Watch for increased DUI patrols by deputies across the county beginning from 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3 at 3:00 p.m. through 5 a.m. the next day. Impaired driving doesn't just refer to alcohol, it can also include marijuana and prescription drugs. "There is simply no excuse for impaired driving," said Sheriff Bill Gore. "One bad decision can end in tragedy." In 2018,... Full story
RAINBOW - North County Fire reported at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 30 that a vehicle became wedged under a semi-truck on the northbound Interstate 15, north of Mission Road. No injuries were reported, but traffic delays are expected.... Full story
BONSALL - A motorcyclist was killed after being struck by a 25-year-old, wrong-way driver from Camp Pendleton suspected of being under the influence on State Route 76 near Via Monserate early Tuesday, Jan. 1, the California Highway Patrol said. The incident occurred at 3:54 a.m., said CHP Officer Mark Latulippe. "A Lexus IS 300 was traveling eastbound within the westbound lanes of SR-76 and collided head-on with a man on a Suzuki motorcycle traveling in the correct, westbound... Full story
FALLBROOK - North County Fire is reporting that they are on the scene of a three-vehicle traffic collision on South Mission just north of Sterling Bridge. They are reporting that five people involved in the accident have major injuries. They suggest drivers use an alternate route. No other details are available at this time. At 3:24 p.m., an ambulance left the scene to take at least one person to Palomar Hospital. Three tow trucks were there to remove the three damaged... Full story
According to the CHP, a two car traffic collision occurred on SR76 west at North River Road, 2:12 p.m. today. A white minivan was reported to be on its side facing the wrong way, the other vehicle (a dark sedan) was on the right hand side with debris in the lanes. A detective has the #2 lane blocked. There was no update on the CHP website as of 3:25 p.m.... Full story
RAINBOW - One person suffered major injuries on Wednesday, Dec. 5 when an SUV crashed into the rear of a semi truck hauling a trailer on Interstate 15 in Rainbow, authorities said. It happened around 6:20 a.m. on I-15 north-south of Rainbow Valley Boulevard, California Highway Patrol Officer Tommy Doerr said. North County Fire Protection District firefighters arrived at the crash and extricated one person who was trapped in a Dodge SUV that struck the back of the semi truck's trailer, NCFPD spokesman John Choi said. Four... Full story
SACRAMENTO – Thanksgiving weekend, traditionally one of the busiest travel times in America, can also be one of the deadliest on the roadways. To help motorists avoid tragedies, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) will have all available officers on patrol during this Maximum Enforcement Period (MEP). The MEP begins at 6:01 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 21, and continues through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 25. During the MEP, CHP officers will educate motorists and enforce traffic safety laws throughout the state to ensure everyone... Full story
FALLBROOK - A motorcyclist was killed in the afternoon on Monday, Nov. 19 in a freeway accident in Fallbrook. The 46-year-old Temecula man was "splitting lanes,'' or riding between slower-moving vehicles when he crashed his two-wheeler on northbound Interstate 15 near East Mission Road shortly after 4:30 p.m., according to the California Highway Patrol. After tumbling onto the pavement, the rider was run over by a box truck, CHP public affairs Officer Mark Latulippe said. The victim died at the scene of the accident. His... Full story
FALLBROOK - One person was killed on Interstate 15 near Fallbrook early Saturday, Nov. 17 in a single-vehicle crash that may have involved alcohol, authorities said. California Highway Patrol officers were first alerted to the crash shortly after 5 a.m. when a truck driver reported seeing a damaged car with an injured person inside stop momentarily at the truck scales in Rainbow before continuing on northbound I-15, CHP Officer Mark Latulippe said. Officers called hospitals in Temecula and Murrieta to check if there were any... Full story
RAINBOW - A motorcyclist was killed on Wednesday, Nov. 7 in a multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 15 in Rainbow, authorities said. It happened shortly after 5:05 a.m. on northbound I-15 near the offramp to Rainbow Valley Boulevard, California Highway Patrol Officer Tommy Doerr said. According to the CHP, a 26-year-old male from La Verne, was traveling on a motorcycle and for reasons that are still under investigation was involved in a collision. The male and the motorcycle came... Full story
RAINBOW - Authorities on Thursday, Nov. 1 identified a 23-year-old man who killed himself and another driver when he collided with the 20-year-old woman's car while driving the wrong way on Interstate 15 near Rainbow. Jacob Rodriguez of Lake Elsinore was driving a white Hyundai Elantra north in the southbound lanes of Interstate 15 around 11:15 p.m. Friday when he collided with a gray Honda Civic driven by Jessica Neumeyer of Murrieta, according to the California Highway... Full story
At roughly 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, the driver of a Toyota Tacoma seemingly lost control of the vehicle while traveling southbound on Interstate 15, launched off the side of the freeway, and crossed Old 395 before coming to rest in a ditch adjacent to Pala Mesa Resort in Fallbrook. According to the California Highway Patrol, no injuries were reported in the incident, even though a reporting party said they witnessed the truck "fly off the southbound 15 freeway and land... Full story
RAINBOW - A possibly inebriated driver heading the wrong way on Interstate 15 near Rainbow caused a crash that killed both him and the driver of the car he struck, a California Highway Patrol officer said on Saturday, Oct. 27. The wrong-way driver was identified as a 23-year-old Lake Elsinore man, and the victim in the other car was a 20-year-old woman from Murrieta, according to CHP Officer Mark Latulippe. Their names were not released. Dispatchers received a call just after... Full story
A woman was struck and killed late Friday in Fallbrook, and the car that struck her drove away. It happened just before 9 p.m., when the woman was walking on East Alvarado Street near Alvarado Court, California Highway Patrol Officer Mark Latulippe said. The woman was in the eastbound lane of Alvarado Street when she was struck. The car did not stop and continued heading east after the crash, Latulippe said. Fire personnel took the woman to a hospital, where she later died. The car involved in the crash was described as... Full story
SAN DIEGO - All southbound lanes of Interstate 5 will be closed from 9:30 p.m. to 5 a.m. starting Sunday, Oct. 21 and continuing through Oct. 25, according to the San Diego Association of Governments. The closure is the first of two five-day closures during which Caltrans crews will remove temporary wooden structures supporting a bridge over I-5 at Gilman Drive. Work crews will also finish constructing the bridge during that time. I-5 southbound will be closed from the Interstate 805 interchange to La Jolla Village Drive and... Full story
TEMECULA - At least one motorist was hit and several others narrowly missed being struck on Tuesday, Oct. 16 when a driver on Interstate 15 plowed through slower traffic, using the shoulders to speed north on the freeway before crashing in Temecula. The reckless driver was first reported about 4:50 p.m. on northbound Interstate 15 near Miramar Road in San Diego County, according to the California Highway Patrol. The agency said multiple witnesses called 911, stating that a... Full story
