Riverside County Fire Capt. John Clingingsmith Jr. said 110 fire personnel were battling the blaze, using 30 engines, four hand crews, two dozers and one water tender truck.<\/p>\n
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A Riverside County firefighter maneuvers his hose on a burned hillside behind a damaged home to put out hotspots from the Yearling fire on April 15, 2026 in Jurupa Valley, CA.<\/p>\n
(Gina Ferazzi \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n
Two people were taken to an area hospital for possible smoke inhalation and a third was treated at the scene. No structures have been destroyed, but one resident told The Times that his home was damaged in the fire.<\/p>\n
The area from Van Buren Boulevard and Jurupa Road east to Stone Avenue toward Stone Elementary School and south to Paisano Way and Limonita Avenue is under mandatory evacuation orders.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire is under investigation, Clingingsmith said.<\/p>\n
A Riverside County Sheriff\u2019s Department spokesperson said a person was detained in connection with the fire but was released after investigators determined they were not involved. <\/p>\n
Jurupa Valley resident Paul Rojas said his home was damaged but is still standing thanks to fast-acting work from fire personnel and friends.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was Cal Fire, Corona Fire and my three neighbors who fought the fire with our hoses,\u201d said Rojas, who has lived in the area for over a decade.<\/p>\n
Rojas was returning home around 4:30 p.m. after picking up his daughters from their schools when he noticed parts of his home and property were on fire.<\/p>\n
Although he saved his home and work studio, he said he lost a power washer, an emergency backup generator, a water tank and a log splitter gifted by his father, who died in 2017.<\/p>\n
He said he ran to save a trailer that was ablaze and even caught fire himself before firefighters doused him and the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Rojas said he also saved his vintage 1957 Chevy Bel Air.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe went through seven fire extinguishers but we saved the car, which was on a lift,\u201d he said. \u201cMy fence was damaged too, but I was able to stay and fight the fires thanks to a respirator I had.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vegetation fire that ignited in Riverside County on Wednesday afternoon damaged at least one home and triggered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[31065,15135,13033,3564,91147,1073,48,52,51,117566,47,50,49,224,117563,612,24631,117564,3898,117565,1968],"class_list":["post-270517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-area-hospital","tag-brush-fire","tag-damage","tag-evacuation","tag-fire-personnel","tag-home","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-limonita-avenue","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-p-m","tag-paisano-way","tag-riverside-county","tag-rojas","tag-stone-elementary-school","tag-thank","tag-van-buren-boulevard","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}