Each year the Governor’s Office of Service and Volunteering recognizes volunteer programs known for innovation in the field of service and volunteerism and for making a positive impact on communities across California.  This year, the Clovis Emergency Response Team (CERT) has been recognized as California’s Disaster Volunteer Program of the Year.  City representatives and CERT volunteers will be receiving the award at a Capitol ceremony on May 22, 2013 along with seven other honorees representing volunteer innovation from across the State.

During the five-year period of 2005-2009, U.S. fire departments responded to an average of 12,400 structure fires in manufactured homes per year, with annual losses of 234 civilian deaths, 453 civilian injuries and $186 million in direct property damage.  In late 2012, Clovis Fire was awarded a $35,000 Fire Prevention grant from FEMA to reduce the risk to over 800 Clovis residents living in manufactured homes.

Just before 7 o’clock this morning, Clovis Police responded to a vehicle versus pedestrian accident on the south side of Shaw Avenue at Pollasky. Officers say a woman was struck when a car travelling eastbound jumped the curb and hit her near the bus stop.

Sixth grade students from seven Clovis elementary schools (Freedom, Gettysburg, Jefferson, Miramonte, Reagan, Red Bank, Tarpey) participated in an essay contest last month to answer this question: “If I were Police Chief, what would I do to make the community a safer and better place for students?”

The Clovis Police Department is conducting enhanced-enforcement patrols, in addition to training and education, in an on-going effort to make the city’s streets safe for pedestrians and bicycles. Vehicle drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists will all come under extra scrutiny in this special enforcement.

Just before 8 o’clock this morning, Clovis Police responded to a call of a vehicle versus a bicyclist on the trail at Peach and Alluvial. Before the accident, both eastbound and westbound traffic had stopped at the trail’s flashing lights. It appeared a pedestrian was going to cross the street southbound on the trail. Instead, he turned and went westbound on the sidewalk.

Members of the Clovis Police Crime Scene Investigation Team responded to Clinton and Highland Avenues in Fresno County today after someone called local law enforcement agencies to report seeing the trailer that had been stolen from the Loma Vista Community Church office in Clovis over the weekend.

Clovis Police are asking for the public’s help in locating Loma Vista Community Church’s 24-foot-long Haulmark trailer and the people who stole it before 7:30 a.m. on Sunday morning (4/7) at 1030 Gettysburg Avenue.

About 11:45 this morning, a teenager driving a black Ford Fusion was travelling westbound on Bullard Avenue at Temperance when heard his cell phone ring, and looked down to check the phone number of the caller. When he looked up, he realized that he was running a red light. That’s when the driver of a blue Buick travelling northbound on Temperance hit the Fusion.

(Clovis, CA) – As part of April’s Distracted Driving Awareness Month campaign, the Clovis Police Department will be actively ticketing those texting or operating hand-held cell phones throughout the month. Drivers who break the law and place themselves and others in danger will be cited with no warnings.