CLOVIS – The Sierra National Forest is conducting an annual Emergency Vehicle Operating Training (EVOT) on Wednesday, Nov. 2, at Avocado Lake in Fresno County between 8:30 am. and 5 p.m. The objective of this exercise is to provide training for safe and effective use of red lights and sirens and amber emergency lights for the upcoming fire season. The ...

SIERRA NATIONAL FOREST – The Bass Lake Ranger District, Sierra National Forest, is preparing to implement the fall/winter burning program, says District Ranger Denise Tolmie. Projects will consist of three activities: pile burning, broadcast, and underburning. “The objective of these prescribed burns are to reduce fuel loading from recent tree mortality fuel projects within the Wildland Urban Intermix and high ...

YOSEMITE — Yosemite National Park invites the public to participate in an event on Wednesday, Nov. 2, to learn about scientific findings related to wilderness use and planning. The workshop will take place at the Garden Terrace room at Yosemite Valley Lodge from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., and will present preliminary findings from a series of scientific studies that ...

MADERA COUNTY – Following are details from the Madera County Sheriff’s Office of reports taken locally from Monday, Oct. 17 to Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016: Oakhurst DUI arrest On Monday, Oct. 17 at 1:11 a.m. a deputy conducted a traffic stop in the area of Highway 41 and Road 426 for equipment violation. The driver was later found to be under ...

OAKHURST — Just after 12:30 p.m. today CHP received reports of a single vehicle rollover accident just west of Elliott Drive on Road 426. Five teenagers, including three males and two females, were eastbound on Road 426 headed back to class at Yosemite High School, according to CHP. As they rounded the corner west of Elliott Drive, the male driver allowed ...

COARSEGOLD — Firefighters were called out to two separate fires in the early morning hours, one near Yosemite Lakes Park and another just south of Hensley Lake. Just after 12:30 a.m., a young man from Coarsegold was southbound on Road 400 approaching Yosemite Springs Parkway. He fell asleep at the wheel, according to CHP at the scene, drove off the ...

AHWAHNEE — The victim of Friday’s homicide in Ahwahnee has been identified by the Madera County Sheriff’s Office. Dennis Dolan, 68, of Ahwahnee was found unresponsive at his residence in the 41000 block of Road 600 near Highway 49 in Ahwahnee, at around 1:30 a.m. on Friday morning. Craig Anthony Fetty, 28, of Oakhurst and Tiffany Dambrino, 20, also from ...

AHWAHNEE — Sheriff Varney announced this evening that two arrests have been made in connection to yesterday’s murder in Ahwahnee. Craig Anthony Fetty, 28, of Oakhurst and Tiffany Dambrino, 20, also from Oakhurst were arrested late Saturday afternoon. Detectives are continuing the investigation, but at this point Fetty has been arrested for murder and Dambrino has been arrested on another ...

MADERA COUNTY – Crews are on scene of a small vegetation fire burning just north of Hensley Lake. Just after 11 a.m., firefighters responded to reports of a fire along Road 400 just north of Road 603, southwest of Yosemite Lakes Park. A full wildland dispatch was called out, including eight Cal Fire and Madera County engines, two crews out ...

MADERA — The Clovis woman charged with causing the death of Frederico Nunez Silva while driving intoxicated pleaded guilty today in a Madera Superior Court, to all charges filed by the District Attorney’s Office, including Gross Vehicular Manslaughter, and D.U.I. Causing Injury. Candice Nicole Ooley, 23, was arrested on Friday, May 20, after she crashed into the back of a ...