DPSS – Riverside County News Source

SAN JACINTO: Bomb scare forces evacuation of county offices, other businesses

August 16, 2017 Trevor Montgomery

SAN JACINTO — A suspicious package, found yesterday morning, Tuesday, Aug. 15, near the Riverside County Department of Child Support Services and County Probation offices brought a flood of law enforcement officials, bomb squad technicians and several bomb squad robots to inspect the item. After inspecting the package, which was found in the 1000 block of State Street in San Jacinto, authorities […]

BANNING: Eleven sickened, 4 hospitalized after second DPSS office evacuated

August 20, 2016 Trevor Montgomery

BANNING – A second major incident involving the mass evacuation of a Riverside County Department of Public Social Services office has occurred, this time in Banning Wednesday, Aug. 17 at 10:44 a.m. Both incidents occurred within a five-day period and both involved employees and/or public being sickened and forced to evacuate DPSS buildings. The two offices are about 45 miles […]

UPDATED: Twelve sickened, 4 hospitalized after chemical released at Lake Elsinore DPSS office

August 14, 2016 Trevor Montgomery

UPDATE: 08/14/2016 1:20 a.m. With information from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department LAKE ELSINORE – Deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Lake Elsinore Police Station and other emergency first responders were dispatched to “a reported irritant causing discomfort to multiple people,” according to Riverside Sheriff’s Sergeant Todd Grimm. The incident occurred at the Riverside County Department of Public Social […]