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RIVERSIDE: Letter with white powder at Sheriff’s Admin. building forces evacuations, decontaminations

August 28, 2017 Trevor Montgomery

RIVERSIDE — Seven people were forced to undergo decontamination and were hospitalized and the entire Riverside County Sheriff’s Administration building was evacuated after officials located a “suspicious letter” that contained a “white powder-like substance,” this morning, Monday, Aug. 28, according to officials from multiple involved law enforcement and fire agencies. “Currently there are seven personnel who have officially been decontaminated,” Riverside County Sheriff’s […]

MORENO VALLEY: Employee injured extinguishing Wal-Mart fire that sent shoppers scrambling to safety

April 8, 2017 Trevor Montgomery

MORENO VALLEY – An employee was injured when a fire erupted inside a busy Moreno Valley Wal-Mart Saturday morning, April 8. The store is in the 12700 block of Moreno Beach Drive in Moreno Valley. The fire, which reportedly began in the clothing section of the store, sent some shoppers scrambling out of the business. While store employees called 911 […]

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 […]