UPDATED: SAN JACINTO: Family displaced by downtown blaze

UPDATE: 11/27/2016 3:30 a.m. With additional photographs and video from the fire scene.

UPDATE: 11/27/2016 2:30 a.m. With updated information from Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department and live stream video from the scene.

SAN JACINTO – This morning’s fire in downtown San Jacinto on E. Main Street brought 29 firefighters from nine engine companies responding to the residential blaze, according to Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Public Information Officer Jody Hagemann. They were assisted by a Breathing Support Unit and other fire officials.

“Cal Fire/Riverside County Firefighters, with assistance from Soboba Fire Department, and Hemet Fire Department are on scene of a multi-family dwelling structure fire in San Jacinto,” Hagemann explained in an initial press release shortly after firefighters arrived at the scene.

“The first arriving engine company reported a two-story, Victorian-style home with smoke and flames visible from the roof,” Hagemann explained.

Hagemann provided another update at about 1:15 a.m., writing that the fire had been contained to one structure. She also wrote that fire resources were expected to remain at the scene of the fire for at least two hours for extensive overhaul and mop-up operations.

Fire officials summoned Southern California Edison and the Southern California Gas Company to the scene of the fire to shut off all utilities to the residence.

E. Main Street between S. Jordan and S. Alessandro Avenues will remain closed until fire personnel are finished at the scene.

At least one family was displaced by the fire and American Red Cross officials were responding to the scene to assist the displaced family.

There were no reported injuries to firefighters or citizens related to the fire.

 

ORIGINAL STORY

SAN JACINTO – Firefighters from multiple agencies are on scene of an early-morning structure fire that is burning in downtown San Jacinto. The blaze is at a set of older buildings at 304 E. Main Street near S. Jordan Avenue.

Firefighters from Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department, Soboba Fire, and Hemet Fire Department are either on scene or headed to the fire that was reported Sunday, Nov. 27, about 12:15 a.m.

Deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s San Jacinto Police Station are also on scene conducting crowd and traffic control as firefighters work to extinguish the blaze, which was initially reported as three apartments or buildings burning. The roof of at least one of the buildings is burning as well.

First images and videos from the scene showed flames shooting from the roof and the top of at least one structure that was burning.

Officials at the scene stated the fire originated in the attic of the residence, but that the cause of the fire was unknown at the time.

E. Main Street between S. Jordan and S. Alessandro Avenues remain closed to through-traffic at this time while firefighters continue to knock down the fire and conduct mop up operations.

No information related to any injuries is known at this time.

 

 

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This is a developing story. More information will be updated as it becomes available.

 

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Trevor Montgomery spent 10 years in the U.S. Army as an Orthopedic Specialist before joining the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department in 1998. He was medically retired after losing his leg in an off-duty accident.

During his time with the sheriff’s department, Trevor worked at several different stations, including the Robert Presley Detention Center, the Southwest Station in Temecula, the Hemet Station, and the Lake Elsinore Station, along with many other locations.