No injuries reported after early morning Hemet fire
HEMET, Calif. — Thanks to an elderly couple’s smoke detectors, no injuries were reported after an early morning fire ripped through a Hemet home’s garage Friday Nov. 27.
The fire, which destroyed the garage and two vehicles, happened in the 3000 block of Red Rubin Court, southeast of W. Stetson and S. Sanderson avenues, and west of Seven Hills Golf Club.
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City of Hemet Fire and Police Departments were alerted to the blaze around 12:40 a.m., and firefighters responded with three engines and a ladder company.
Officers were first to arrive at the scene and reported finding a fully-involved garage fire within a two-story home on the small cul-de-sac.
One car was destroyed while another was heavily damaged after a fire ripped through the garage of a Hemet home early Friday morning. Timothy Franzese/Public Safety Incidents photo
As firefighters began arriving, officers were seen evacuating the involved residence as well as surrounding homes.
Firefighters at the scene set up for an aggressive fire attack, and quickly had the blaze knocked down and contained before any other nearby homes could be damaged.
Although the fire was primarily contained to the involved home’s garage, the residence sustained heavy smoke damage throughout, according to a firefighter at the scene.
One vehicle that was parked inside the garage was destroyed by the fire, while another that was parked in the driveway just outside the garage sustained heavy front-end damage from the blaze.
The elderly couple who live at the residence later said they were asleep when they were alerted to the fire by their home’s smoke detectors.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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Trevor Montgomery, 49, moved in 2017 to the Intermountain area of Shasta County from Riverside County and runs Riverside County News Source and Shasta County News Source. Additionally, he writes or has written for several other news organizations; including Riverside County based newspapers, Valley News, (the now defunct) Valley Chronicle, Anza Valley Outlook, and Hemet & San Jacinto Chronicle; as well as Bonsall/Fallbrook Village News in San Diego County and Mountain Echo in Shasta County.
Trevor 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, breaking his back, and suffering both spinal cord and brain injuries in an off-duty accident. (Click here to see segment of Discovery Channel documentary of Trevor’s accident.)
During his time with the sheriff’s department, Trevor worked at several different stations; including Robert Presley Detention Center, Southwest Station in Temecula, Hemet/Valle Vista Station, Ben Clark Public Safety Training Center, and Lake Elsinore Station; along with other locations.
Trevor’s assignments included Corrections, Patrol, DUI Enforcement, Boat and Personal Water-Craft based Lake Patrol, Off-Road Vehicle Enforcement, Problem Oriented Policing Team, and Personnel/Background Investigations. He finished his career while working as a Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Investigator and was a court-designated expert in child abuse and child sex-related crimes.
Trevor has been married for more than 30 years and was a foster parent to more than 60 children over 13 years. He is now an adoptive parent and his “fluid family” includes 13 children and 18 grandchildren.