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RIVERSIDE – City of Riverside firefighters are crediting several good Samaritans with saving a man from a fiery death after the driver lost control of his car and smashed into a palm tree Monday, Nov. 7. After the car plowed into the tree it burst into flames. The fiery wreck happened at 1:03 p.m., in the area of Alessandro Boulevard and Mission […]
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RIVERSIDE – CAL FIRE/Riverside County firefighters had to fight a structure fire at the Ben Clark Public Safety Training Center – a place where they are more accustomed to training how to fight fires at – Saturday, Oct. 22. The training facility, which is run by the Riverside Sheriff’s Department, provides law enforcement, fire, and correctional based public safety training courses. It […]
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UPDATE: 10/24/2016 4:30 p.m. TEMECULA – Investigators from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Central Homicide Unit and Southwest Station, in conjunction with Cal-Fire’s Arson Unit, announced today that a fire at a Temecula area care facility that killed five people was arson related. Additionally, four of the five people found at the residence after the fire sustained injuries consistent with gun shot wounds, […]
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UPDATE 10/23/2016 8:35 p.m. With additional information regarding victim’s rescues and current conditions. RIVERSIDE – Three elderly victims were pulled from a burning residence Saturday Oct. 22. The three were trapped in a residential fire in the 11600 block of Hartford Court in the La Sierra area of Riverside. City of Riverside firefighters and police officers responded to multiple 911 […]
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UPDATE: 10/18/2016 2:40 p.m. With information from HUSD HEMET – Hemet Unified School District bus drivers receive many hours of training each year to prepare them for different emergency scenarios they may encounter, according to HUSD Public Information Officer Alexandria Cass. Today, Cristina Dever, Sysonna Allen, and Gabriel Figueroa’s emergency training was put to the test. The three HUSD bus drivers were […]
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WILDOMAR – A Cal Fire/Riverside County fire engine sustained major damage while working on a traffic collision call when it was struck by a vehicle on Interstate 15 in Wildomar Sunday morning, Oct. 2. Firefighters were providing medical aid for those injured in the first collision when it was struck from behind. The first accident was reported just before 7 a.m. Paramedic Engine E-94 from the City of Lake […]
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A recreational trailer was quickly destroyed as a vegetation fire near Eaton and N. Lyon Avenues grew into a raging blaze. William Whelan photo UPDATE:10/05/2016 2:52 a.m. Officials announced the apprehension of two minors, accused of starting a field fire that quickly grew into a city-wide emergency. The small vegetation fire began Friday, September 30, just after 6 p.m., in […]
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A City of Hemet firefighter from Engine Company 2 – one of the first to arrive at the fire – is seen battling the residential blaze. Courtesy photo from Hemet Fire Department – by Joe Fanaselle HEMET – City of Hemet firefighters and other emergency personnel responded to a residential fire in the area of West Whittier Avenue and South Santa […]
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On Scene photography/videography: William Hayes / Epicenter News/Loudlabs News John Strangis / OnScene.TV HOMELAND – Firefighters battled a late night blaze in a storage lot on Highway 74 near Agnew Avenue Sunday, Sept. 18. Their efforts to knock down the fire were hampered by live power lines that were melting and shooting huge sparks. As the the power lines melted […]
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The first arriving engine company reported a 15,000 square foot strip mall with a well-established fire burning in the attic space. Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire photo BEAUMONT – Two firefighters suffered minor, but unspecified, injuries while battling a two alarm structure fire at a strip mall in the 400 block E. 6th Street in Beaumont Sept. 11. Both injured firefighters were transported by […]
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