Panorama Fire

Northwestern Preparatory School (NWPS) is a post-high school graduate preparatory school designed to prepare young men and women who aspire to attend United States military academies. It focuses on improving students' standardized test taking skills through English, mathematics, science, and vocabulary study. Founded in 1915 in Mound, Minnesota. James Hoiby served as Headmaster for over two decades. In 1982, NWPS relocated to Santa Barbara, California. It remained there for the next few years until again relocating to the San Bernardino Mountains. From 1988 to 1989, NWPS was located at Camp Cisquito (near Green Valley) in the heart of the Angeles National Forest. In 1990, NWPrep relocated to Malibu on the Pacific Coast Highway, leasing Camp Joan Mier from Ability First, formerly the Crippled Children Society . After the 1995 Malibu fire, NWPrep moved to another Ability First facility, Camp Paivika, in the San Bernardino Mountains, CA. Following James Hoiby's death, Mrs. Suzanne Durbeck was appointed Headmistress by members of the NWPS school board. The school is very effective at achieving its stated goal of assisting students in their quest for an appointment to a Service Academy with over 2,000 placements at the United States Air Force Academy, the United States Coast Guard Academy, the United States Military Academy, West Point, the United States Naval Academy, and the United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point.

Crestline is a census-designated place in the San Bernardino Mountains of San Bernardino County, California, USA. The population was 10,770 at the 2010 census, up from 10,218 at the 2000 census.

Cedarpines Park is an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Cedarpines Park is 10 miles (16 km) north-northwest of San Bernardino. Cedarpines Park has a post office with ZIP code 92322. The post office opened in 1927 and was closed from 1943 to 1946.

Camp Seeley' was a United States Army World War II training camp near El Centro, California in the Imperial Valley. At Camp Seeley was: the Camp Seeley Combat Firing Range, Camp Seeley Ordnance Desert Proving Ground and Camp Seeley Ordnance Training Center. The 17,574 acres Camp Seeley was 10 miles northwest of the City of El Centro, near the city of Seeley, California. The town is named after Henry Seeley, a pioneer of the Imperial Valley. The camp was north of what is now California State Route 98. The tent camp, in the Yuha Desert, opened November 1940, first based at the camp was the 11th Cavalry Regiment, the troops and Army horse came from the Presidio of Monterey, California. At the camp the 11th Cavalry Regiment took part in desert training and teaching horses to swim across rivers with rider. 11th Cavalry Regiment moved to Camp Lockett at Campo, California in December 1941. The 11th and 28th Cavalry Regiment also trained at the camp, along with the 75th Horse Field Artillery Battalion. In 1942 Camp Seeley was converted to a US Army ordnance proving ground. While the camp is closed the area of Camp Seeley the home of the Historical "The Colonel's Own." 11th Cavalry Horse Honor Guard. The US Army Quartermaster Test Command opened the Desert Test Command Headquarters in March 1942 at Camp Seeley. The ordnance proving ground job was to test armed vehicles, tanks, and trucks and jeeps. Camp Seeley had sand terrain and high temperatures for these tests. Live fire tests were not done at Camp Seeley, as live fire test was done in the nearby vast Desert Training Center. The camp was transferred to the US Army Ordnance Department in August 1942, later renamed Ordnance Desert Proving Ground. The camp was closed on 18 April 1946 and returned to the Department of the Interior. The former camp is now run by the currently a Bureau of Land Management for off-road vehicle use.

KCAL-FM (96.7 FM) is a commercial radio station that is licensed to Redlands, California, and broadcasts to the Inland Empire (Riverside—San Bernardino) area. The station is owned by Anaheim Broadcasting and airs an active rock format. The KCAL-FM studios are located in Redlands and the transmitter site is near Lake Arrowhead in the San Bernardino Mountains. KCAL-FM is not connected to KCAL 1410 AM in San Bernardino or KCAL-TV, Channel 9 in Los Angeles.

KSGN (89.7 MHz) is a non-commercial FM radio station licensed to Riverside, California, and serving the Riverside-San Bernardino area of the Inland Empire. Good News Radio is a religious nonprofit organization. It airs a Christian Contemporary radio format. The studios and offices are on Orange Tree Lane in Redlands. The station holds on-air fundraisers and seeks donations on its website to support its ministry. 89.7 KSGN has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 2,750 watts as a Class A station. The transmitter is on Cloudland Truck Trail in San Bernardino. It is also heard on two FM translators in Banning and Palm Springs.

The Old Fire was a large complex wildfire that started on October 25, 2003 (the original Old Fire began on October 25), near Old Waterman Canyon Road and California State Route 18 in the San Bernardino Mountains, in San Bernardino County, Southern California, United States. The Old Fire caused at least $1.2 billion in damages.The Old Fire was one of 15 wildfires throughout Southern California that month, which became known as the "2003 Firestorm" and the "Fire Siege of 2003." This included the huge Cedar Fire, what was then the second-largest fire in California's history after the Santiago Canyon Fire of 1889.

Murillo Family Observatory is a teaching and research observatory for California State University, San Bernardino, located on Badger Hill on the northern portion of campus, in San Bernardino, the U.S. state of California. As of 2010, it was the newest research observatory in the Inland Empire and in the California State University system. The observatory consists of two telescopes which are used for research and teaching; a 20-inch Ritchey-Chretien and a 17-inch Corrected Dall-Kirkham Astrograph. In addition to the research telescopes the observatory has an observation deck with piers where small telescopes may be set up for undergraduate laboratory classes or open house nights. It serves as both an academic and community resource, with public viewing nights and special astronomy events for the community.

Devil Canyon is a 1.5 mile long canyon on the south slope of the San Bernardino Mountains, in San Bernardino County, California. Its mouth lies at an elevation of 1,759 feet (536 meters). It heads at 34°12′53″N 117°19′43″W, the confluence of East Fork Devil Canyon and West Fork Devil Canyon at an elevation of 2,352 feet (717 meters).

Devil Canyon, is a steep sided valley or canyon in the south side of Paivia Peak, in the San Bernardino Mountains of San Bernardino County, California. Devil Canyon Creek with its tributary East and West Forks, are a tributary of the Santa Ana River watershed, now interrupted by the local irrigation and flood control system reservoir at its mouth.

The California State University, San Bernardino College of Extended and Global Education is one of the several colleges of the California State University, San Bernardino, located on the third floor of the Center for Global Innovation building on the main university campus in the University District of San Bernardino, California.

The San Bernardino Valley Water Conservation Demonstration Garden is a public teaching-research garden with just over an acre of plantings and displays that showcase water conservation through a series of themed gardens and exhibits located at California State University, San Bernardino. While located on the Cal State campus in San Bernardino, the Garden was not built with any state resources. Rather, it was made possible by major gifts from three local donors: the San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District (now called the West Valley Water District), the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians and the Inland Empire Resource Conservation District, with additional donations from a variety of smaller donors and in-kind contributions of labor, supplies and expertise.