Black Ranch – Riverside County News Source

“It exploded! It’s totally engulfed in flames!” Terrified witness films numerous explosions during Burney barn fire

July 1, 2021 Trevor Montgomery

Firefighters had to return to the scene of a destructive barn and vegetation fire at around 2 a.m., after a pair of early morning delivery drivers spotted flames billowing high above the Black Ranch area. Trevor Montgomery/SCNS photo Original Story: BURNEY, Calif. — Although firefighters made quick work of a vegetation fire that was sparked by a barn fire that […]

Woman seriously injured, airlifted, after Burney motorcycle crash

June 18, 2021 Trevor Montgomery

BURNEY, Calif. — A woman was seriously injured and airlifted to a Redding trauma center after a motorcycle she was a passenger on crashed while traveling on Black Ranch Road near Burney earlier this afternoon, Friday, June 18. Black Ranch Road is an approximately nine mile stretch of two-lane roadway connecting highways 299E and 89, at Clark Creek Road, that […]

Johnson Park nerves rattled after “WWII bomb” detonated off Black Ranch

April 3, 2019 Trevor Montgomery

JOHNSON PARK — Residents of the small, unincorporated Intermountain community of Johnson Park, whose nerves were already rattled after a home invasion and shots fired last night, were further shaken – quite literally – by what early reports have indicated was possibly the controlled detonation of a “WWII bomb” earlier this evening, Wednesday, April 3. The detonation occurred in the […]