A partial excerpt from the 11/18/70 Disaster Committee On September 26, 1970, brushfires broke out in the "back country" of San Diego County. They swept through hills and canyons and…
The October 26, 2003 Cedar Fire The Crest Community Ablaze Fire disaster once again struck the Crest community in 2003. The Cedar Fire, a human-caused wildfire driven by Santa Ana…
Life in the 70s Life in Crest 1970sBy 1976, the population of Crest was 2,144 with a reported total of 670 homes. Numbers the following year grew to a population…
Crest Volunteer Fire Department 1942-1951 Creation of the Crest Volunteer Fire Department- 1942-1951 The first firefighting equipment on the hill in 1942 consisted of barrels of water hauled on a…