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Mono County supervisors ratify local emergency after storm that dumped about six feet of snow and caused two deaths
Summary
The Mono County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a resolution ratifying a local emergency for a winter storm that began Dec. 24, 2025, after Sheriff Ingrid Brown reported widespread outages, two storm-related fatalities and infrastructure damage. Supervisors pressed Southern California Edison for clearer outage communications and asked county staff to seek inclusion in the governor's state proclamation.
Mono County's Board of Supervisors voted 4–0, with one absence, on Jan. 2 to ratify a proclamation of local emergency for a winter storm that began Dec. 24, 2025.
Sheriff Ingrid Brown, serving as the county's acting emergency manager, told the board the storm began Dec. 23–24 and "we got about six feet of snow." Brown said prolonged power outages affected areas from June Lake through Bridgeport, forced the county to open shelters, exceeded local capacity, and contributed to two storm-related deaths, including a ski patroller she named, Cole Murphy. "I declared a local emergency because we needed to open a shelter and it was beyond the capacity of Mono…
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