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Board hears storm response update; June Lake and Lee Vining faced multi‑day outages and warming centers opened
Summary
County emergency staff reported warming centers, mutual aid for fires and lengthy power outages in June Lake and Lee Vining during recent storms, and flagged communication gaps with the utility company during the incidents.
Mono County emergency management and other county staff updated the Board of Supervisors on responses to recent storms and an avalanche that affected multiple communities.
Chris McCrasick said county crews opened warming centers in June Lake and Lee Vining, and that mutual aid helped contain two fires in June Lake during the storm period. He described outages that lasted more than 24 hours in parts of June Lake and Lee Vining and criticized communication failures with Southern California Edison (SCE) that left county officials without timely answers during the incident.
"We reached out through many sources through SCE, and we got no response," McCrasick told the board, and the board asked staff to pursue a debrief with SCE and request that the utility appear before the board for direct discussion of outage response and communication protocols.
Staff also thanked county IT and social media staff for quickly posting information, and the board recognized public works and EMS crews for their response. The board discussed follow‑up steps including a debrief with SCE and consideration of community emergency notification improvements.
