No injuries reported after vehicle goes up in flames outside San Jacinto Jack in the Box
SAN JACINTO, Calif. — No injuries were reported after a fire that destroyed a woman’s SUV early this morning, Sunday, May 23. The vehicle blaze erupted as the victim was getting an early morning snack at a San Jacinto Jack in the Box in the area of State Street and Ramona Expressway, according to fire and sheriff’s personnel.
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Deputies from the San Jacinto Sheriff’s Station and Cal Fire-Riverside firefighters were dispatched to the scene around 1 a.m. after receiving reports of a vehicle fire outside the fast food restaurant.
Firefighters work at the scene of a vehicle fire that erupted outside a Hemet Jack in the Box early this morning. Robert Carter/Public Safety Incidents photo
When officials arrived they found a dark-colored SUV that was fully engulfed in flames. The driver had already safely gotten out of her burning vehicle and firefighters made quick work knocking down the fire.
The victim later told officials and others at the scene that she was in the restaurant’s drive-thru when her vehicle began to suffer a mechanical failure. As the woman pulled away from the restaurant and onto the street, she smelled smoke and realized her SUV had caught on fire.
Officials and others are still looking into the mechanical failure that caused the vehicle blaze.
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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 (RCNS) and Shasta County News Source (SCNS).
Additionally, he writes or has written for several other news organizations; including Riverside County-based newspapers Valley News, Valley Chronicle, Anza Valley Outlook, and Hemet & San Jacinto Chronicle; the Bonsall/Fallbrook Village News in San Diego County; and Mountain Echo in Shasta County. He is also a regular contributor to Thin Blue Line TV and Law Enforcement News Network and has had his stories featured on news stations throughout the Southern California and North State regions.
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.