Bain Fire Burns 100 Acres, Triggering Riverside Evacuations
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Updated · KABC-TV · May 19
Bain Fire Burns 100 Acres, Triggering Riverside Evacuations
6 articles · Updated · KABC-TV · May 19
At least 100 acres burned after the Bain Fire broke out at 11:22 a.m. Tuesday in the Santa Ana River bottom near Bain Street and Limonite Avenue in Jurupa Valley.
Multiple county and Riverside fire crews met flames moving at a moderate rate through heavy brush, while two Cal Fire air tankers and two water-dropping helicopters were sent in to slow the spread.
Evacuation orders covered parts of Riverside, including Arlington Avenue between Crestview Drive and Western Avenue, plus Sandy Lane, Sunnyvale Drive, Valley Drive and Fairhaven Drive.
The cause was not immediately known, though the river bottom has long contained homeless encampments where debris, cooking and warming fires occur year-round.
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