Category Archives: KMJ Top Stories

Consolidation Underway For Animals Evacuated From the Creek Fire

Consolidation Underway For Animals Evacuated From the Creek Fire

(Photo courtesy:  Big Fresno Fair ) (KMJ) – Fresno County has started relocating animals evacuated due to the Creek Fire Small animals at the temporary shelter at Granite Ridge Intermediate School are now being transferred to the Fresno Fairgrounds Small Animal Shelter. And the County is also relocating livestock from the Clovis Rodeo Grounds to the…MORE

Tulare County Issues Evacuation Order for Portions of Three Rivers

Tulare County Issues Evacuation Order for Portions of Three Rivers

  VISALIA, CA – Tulare County Sheriff has issued a mandatory evacuation for portions of Three Rivers. The Tulare County Sheriff announced a mandatory evacuation for a portion of Three Rivers, south and east from 198, east to south of the Fork Campground, including South Fork Drive, Horn, and Cahoon Mtn. and adjacent roads, due to the…MORE

President Trump Heads to California For Wildfire Briefing

President Trump Heads to California For Wildfire Briefing

(KMJ) – President Trump is scheduled to visit Sacramento County today for a briefing on raging West Coast wildfires. While in the Golden State, the President is expected to meet with Governor Gavin Newsom at McClellan Park.  It is a former Air Force Base that now houses California’s Office of Emergency Services and hangars for Cal Fire…MORE

State Law Will Help Inmate Firefighters Turn Pro

State Law Will Help Inmate Firefighters Turn Pro

FRESNO, CA (KMJ) — California’s inmate firefighters now have a shot at becoming a professional firefighter when they get out. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB2147 into law on Friday.     http:// Record breaking temperatures. Record droughts. We’re in a CLIMATE CRISIS. And what we’re experiencing in California is coming to every community — all across the United…MORE

Community Regional Medical Center’s On-Call Neurosurgical Services Will Resume

Community Regional Medical Center’s On-Call Neurosurgical Services Will Resume

  FRESNO COUNTY PRESS RELEASE: The Fresno Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Agency was notified Thursday morning by Community Regional Medical Centers (CRMC) administration that on-call Neurosurgical Services will resume in full operation beginning at 5:00 pm on Friday, September 11, 2020. On Tuesday, September 8, 2020, CRMC was given notice that it must have on-call…MORE

Parole Denied for 3 Years for Tulare County Killer

Parole Denied for 3 Years for Tulare County Killer

Late Wednesday afternoon via video conference, TCDA prosecutors secured a 3-year parole denial for Richard Flowers, age 64. In 1994, Flowers stabbed, strangled, and robbed 78-year-old woman Mary Eloise Garcia in her Tulare home. Flowers used the money and items stolen from his victim to buy cocaine. In 1996, a jury convicted Flowers of first-degree…MORE

California Supreme Court Rules Against Immanuel Schools in Reedley

California Supreme Court Rules Against Immanuel Schools in Reedley

  The California Supreme Court has ruled that Immanuel Schools will have to cancel on campus learning in Reedley. Immanuel is a kindergarten through 12th grade Christian school that welcomed students back to its Reedley campus in mid-August, despite Governor Newsom’s strict orders against it due to COVID-19 guidelines. At the end of August, a…MORE