East County News Service

April 23, 2023 (Ramona)-- The Sheriff's Bomb/Arson Unit is investigating a deadly fire in the unincorporated area of Ramona.

It happened on Saturday, April 22 just after 1 p.m. in the 17000 block of Voorhes Lane. The San Diego County Sheriff's Department received calls about a travel trailer on fire. 

Deputies and firefighters from Cal Fire/San Diego County Fire arrived to find the trailer fully engulfed and soon after unfortunately found a deceased woman inside the trailer.

April  23, 2023  (San Diego) -- East County Roundup highlights top stories of interest to East County and San Diego's inland regions, published in other media.  This week's round-up stories include:

LOCAL

• MTS Board to Decide Who Will Lead Agency Through Crisis (Voice of San Diego)
• Check your frozen strawberries: Hep A outbreak linked to fruit sold in San Diego stores (KPBS)
• Migrants say they’re held between walls: Several charge Border Patrol agents have kept them for days without food, blankets (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Retired Marine General: Duncan Hunter in Fallujah Was ‘Very Cocky,’ ‘Reckless’  (Times of San Diego)
• Santee to begin issuing citations mid-May to those starting fires by the river in an effort to reduce encampments (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• 72 hours: Inside San Diego County’s mental health crisis  (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Feds charge ‘El Chapo’ sons with massive fentanyl operation that leads to the San Diego border  San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Barona raising awareness: ‘It’s called a genocide’ (East County Cailfornian)
• Car crashes into El Cajon apartment building, residents evacuated (10 News)

STATE

• LA County Reports First Cases Of New COVID-19 Strain (Patch.com)
• California lawmakers want to know why billions in spending isn’t reducing homelessness (KPBS)
• CSU student assistants say they can’t make ends meet. Now they’ll file for their own union  (Sacramento Bee)

For excerpts and links to full stories, click  “read more” and scroll down.

April 23, 2023 (San Diego's East County) -- Our Health and Science Highlights provide cutting edge news that could impact your health and our future.

HEALTH

• CDC signs off on additional COVID-19 booster doses for certain people (CNN)
• 'Big shift' in cancer treatment? MRNA vaccine shows promise against melanoma  (USA Today)
• After fall of Roe, future doctors show less interest in training in states with abortion bans or as ob/gyns    (CNN)

SCIENCE AND TECH

• SpaceX's uncrewed Starship explodes on launch attempt (CNN)
• UN climate report: Scientists release 'survival guide' to avert climate disaster (BBC)
• Twitter staff cuts leave Russian trolls unchecked (BBC)
• What it will look like if China launches cyberattacks in the U.S. (Politico)

For excerpts and links to full stories, click “read more” and scroll down.

By Ken Stone,Times of San Diego, a member of the San Diego Online News Association

Photo:  lawsuit singled out Mike Lindell for the most egregious falsehoods against Dominion Voting Systems. Image via court records

April 22, 2023 (San Diego) - Now that Fox News has settled with Dominion Voting Systems, what are the odds of the San Diego owners of One America News doing the same in a similar defamation case?

By Miriam Raftery

April 22, 2023 (Boulevard) – For more than two decades,  Donna Tisdale has been a champion for residents in San Diego’s backcountry, leading battles against massive energy projects and a dump. She started a nonprofit, Backcountry Against Dumps and chaired the Boulevard Planning Group every year since joining it in 1991. She’s filed countless lawsuits against a seemingly endless array of Goliath-scale projects and organized community opposition after San Diego’s East County was declared an energy corridor by the federal government.

By Chuck Westerheide, County of San Diego Communications Office

Photo:  Medic 282 Paramedic Ambulance and Crew

April 21, 2023 (La Mesa) -- A new ambulance with its crew and services added by the San Diego County Fire Protection District and CAL FIRE is seeing a great deal of use. County Fire accepted the transfer of responsibility for fire protection and emergency medical services in Ramona last August. The change brought a third fire department paramedic ambulance and additional firefighter staffing enhancements to the Ramona service area. 

The new paramedic ambulance has been dispatched 315 times and has taken 148 patients to area hospitals. Assigned to Fire Station 82, on Dye Road, the paramedic ambulance has full-time staffing with two firefighter paramedics 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  Due to residential and business development along with population growth, there have been steady increases in 911 emergencies.