Utility Companies
Fern Valley Water District
Our water district is Fern Valley Water District. Many years ago we shutdown our private SMHA Water System in favor of Fern Valley Water District.
FVWD Emergency Contact Number: 951-659-2200 (It’s not unusual to reach voice mail after hours, leave a message they will reply quickly).
Southern California Edison
Our power company is SCE. https://sce.com/
- It’s not unusual to loose power briefly a few times each winter due to trees/limbs downed by snow.
- It’s also not unusual for SCE to perform a Public Safety Power Shutoff during high wind events due to high fire risk should a line get knocked down.
- 2019-20 they’ve been replacing poles and lines which should reduce the frequency of the PSPS shutoffs, but meant a lot of planned outages for the work.
You can subscribe to alerts about all three of those events https://www.sce.com/wildfire/psps-alerts
You can report an outage here: https://www.sce.com/outage-center/report-an-outage or by phone 1-800-611-1911.
You can check on an outage here https://www.sce.com/outage-center/check-outage-status
Spectrum Cable (TV, Cable Internet, Phone)
Spectrum provides Cable TV, Internet and Phone.
Frontier Communications (Phone, DSL Internet)
Frontier provides standard telephone service and offers DSL internet.
Local Emergency Agencies
Idyllwild Fire Protection District
Mountain Disaster Preparedness
A community-based, volunteer organization that provides education, planning, logistics, training and support for residents and emergency responders in the communities of Idyllwild, Pine Cove, and Mountain Center.
Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF) formed the California Fire Safe Council with the intent of seeing that local fire safe councils were formed with the single charge of educating the local public about fire abatement practices that can save their homes in the event of a fire.
Local News
Idyllwild Town Crier
Our local newspaper since 1950! A terrific local resource.