Mass Casualty – Riverside County News Source

LAKEVIEW: Nine injured in multi-vehicle, “mass-casualty” accident

February 20, 2017 Trevor Montgomery

LAKEVIEW – Nine people were injured in an early-morning, multiple-vehicle crash Sunday, Feb. 19. The accident happened in the area of Gilman Springs Road and Eden Hot Springs Road in the unincorporated community of Lakeview. Lakeview is southeast of Moreno Valley and northwest of Hemet. A total of four vehicles were involved in the accident and authorities are investigating the […]

INDIO: Fourteen injured, 4 left in critical condition, in DUI-related crash

December 27, 2016 Trevor Montgomery

INDIO – Fourteen people were injured when a suspected drunk driver smashed into three other vehicles Monday, Dec. 26. The accident, which the on-scene incident commander declared a mass-casualty event, happened at the intersection of Monroe Street and Avenue 48 in Indio about 6:48 p.m. Of the fourteen victims who were injured in the accident, a total of eight victims with various injuries […]

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 […]