Columbia Incident
Incident Name: Columbia Incident
Date Reported: 7/5/2020
Time Reported: 0159
Incident Location: 400 Block of Columbia, Riverside, CA 92501
Ward #: Ward 1 Edwards
Type of Incident: Vegetation Fire
Incident Number: RIV Incident #20-019012
Control Time: 7/5/2020 at 0330 Hours
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Chief Officer(s): 2
Engine Companies: 6
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Firefighter(s): 21
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Percent (%) Contained or Completed: 100
Total (%) of Perimeter that will be Contained: 100
Incident Size Acreage: 2
Current Situation
On July 5 at 1:59 a.m., The City of Riverside Fire Department responded a first alarm vegetation fire response to the 400 Block of Columbia Ave for reports a fire on the hillside behind the Nordstrom’s Warehouse. Firefighters arrived to find a two-acre vegetation fire off of the Serpentine Truck trail burning into the Box Springs Preserve located in the City of Riverside. A second alarm was immediately requested due to the remoteness and they immediate need to have two brush trucks to mitigate the fire.
Firefighters had a difficult time in making access due to the Serpentine Truck Trail being degraded from weather erosion. The incident commander was able to guide in one engine company and stop the progress of the fire from establishing on the hillside. The main access road did not have the fire department access locks and the locks that we did not have keys to where cut off for the brush truck to make access to on the service road below the Serpentine Truck Trail.
The fire was held to two acres. There was an abandoned pick-up truck stuck on a large boulder that was reported joy riding and lighting off fireworks from witnesses at a nearby homeless encampment. The vehicle information was given to RPD. The fire was undetermined after investigation.
Assisting Aid Agencies
Incident Commander: Bruce Vanderhorst
Prepared By: Bruce Vanderhorst
Date / Time Posted: 07/06/2020 0820
Information Center: 951.826.5321