A fire destroyed a 1,000-square-foot home Monday in San Jacinto, and the blaze briefly prompted neighborhood evacuations while three area schools were placed on a shelter-in-place status during the early afternoon because of smoke.
No injuries were reported. The fire alarmed at 12:42 PM in the 200 block of South Santa Fe Avenue, and Cal Fire/Riverside County firefighters arrived to find one of the two single-family homes on the property completely ablaze.
The fire did not spread to the other home. The American Red Cross was called to help find dwelling for two adults and four children displaced by the fire, Cal Fire reported. The loss was estimated at $150,000.
During the height of the blaze, Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies worked to warn residents of nearby Brown Street to evacuate. “They need to get out of there,” one radio message said.
San Jacinto Unified School District placed three nearby schools on a shelter-in-place status until about 2 p.m., said district spokeswoman Dawn Lawrence said. Those schools were San Jacinto Elementary, San Jacinto Preschool-Headstart and Monte Vista Middle School.
Students had limited outdoor activity during the brief shelter-in-place status, she said.
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