Category: Fire Incidents

UPDATE: Firefighters say Burney fire caused by escaped campfire at illegal encampment

UPDATED: Wednesday, June 89, 10 a.m. BURNEY, Calif. — Firefighters have determined that a vegetation fire that threatened the Pit River Casino and numerous homes in Burney last Saturday afternoon was caused by an escaped campfire left burning inside an illegal encampment, CAL FIRE/Shasta Trinity officials have since reported. No arrests were made after the blaze, which consumed approximately 20.5 […]

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Suspicious fires cause major damage at Redding’s Caldwell Park

REDDING, Calif. — Officials today confirmed to SCNS that a series of suspected arson fires set at Redding’s Caldwell Park caused major damage to one of the park’s bathrooms as well as minor damage to the location’s on-site snack building over Memorial Day weekend. LEADING THE SCNS HEADLINES: “Miraculous survival” after teen driver swerves to avoid oncoming car, plummets 200 […]

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Blown off course, injured parachutist left dangling from Lake Elsinore powerlines

LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. — Authorities say a parachutist was hospitalized after he was blown off course and became entangled in powerlines in the area of Mission Trail and Vine Street in Lake Elsinore.  Witnesses have since said it appeared the parachutist, who spent just over an hour dangling from the powerlines, was trying to aim for a large empty field […]

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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. LEADING THE […]

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30-40 RVs destroyed, firefighter injured in massive Canyon Lake 3-alarm blaze

CANYON LAKE, Calif. — Officials are continuing to work at the scene of a massive blaze at a Canyon Lake RV storage facility that erupted inside the gated Canyon Lake community this afternoon, Wednesday, May 19.  As of the latest report from the scene the fire, which erupted at Canyon Lake Storage, at 22229 Loch Lomond Dr., the blaze had destroyed […]

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Search for gun-wielding hit and run suspects forces San Jacinto school lockdown

SAN JACINTO, Calif. — Details are beginning to emerge after a hit and run involving a vehicle that smashed through a brick wall, mowed down a back yard awning, and crashed into a house yesterday, Friday, May 7. A subsequent search for two males, who were seen tossing a handgun over a fence while running from the scene of the […]

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Hemet woman, 26, dead after Lakeview crash that sparked 226 acre vegetation fire

Photos taken from above shortly after Wednesday’s crash occurred showed flames spreading outward from the victim’s vehicle into nearby vegetation. Mark Holtzman/West Coast Aerial Photography, Inc. photo LAKEVIEW, Calif. — Authorities say a woman was killed and a good Samaritan who was one of many citizens who helped to pull her from her burning vehicle was injured after a solo-vehicle […]

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Officials investigating yet another series of suspicious Johnson Park area fires

JOHNSON PARK, Calif. — Officials are continuing to investigate a series of suspicious fires that burned in the unincorporated community of Johnson Park, east of the Intermountain area town of Burney, early Monday morning, May 3. The suspicious fires follow a number of recent other fires, some of which have been deemed suspicious, while others have been called arson-related. Three […]

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Rock climber airlifted after accident at Ortega Falls

LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. — Reports of a rock climber who was seriously injured after falling while hiking at Ortega Falls near Lake Elsinore led to a dramatic rescue when the victim had to be hoisted out of the steep and inaccessible canyon by a Sheriff’s rescue chopper Sunday April 25. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: UPDATE: More details emerge after Fallbrook […]

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Perris apartment destroyed by afternoon blaze

PERRIS, Calif. — No injuries were reported after a fire ripped through a Perris apartment Sunday afternoon, April 25. The blaze, which damaged at least one neighboring apartment, happened in the 200 block of E. 6th Street, between S. Perris Boulevard and S. “F” Street. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: Bewildered would-be burglar nabbed after security gate foils Hemet liquor store […]

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