OCFA firefighters also put out a fire at a warehouse at the 10700 block of Chestnut Ave. on Jan. 6. Fire crews were able to quickly get everyone out and confine the fire.
One worker was treated by firefighter paramedics and was transported to the hospital.
A fire in a parked RV next to several structures in Garden Grove came dangerously close to spreading at 5 am this morning.
The incident was in the 12000 block of Harbor Bl. This was in the Garden Grove resort district at the busy W. Champan Ave. intersection with many restaurants and hotels.
OCFA firefighters quickly knocked it down & prevented extension.
No injuries were reported and no cause has been determined yet.
OCFA firefighters responded to a hazardous materials incident as a result of a two-car traffic collision at Grand and Fourth in Santa Ana just past 9 p.m. tonight.
One vehicle carrying acid and chlorine had the load spill which prompted the response.
An OCFA HazMat crew rendered the spill neutral. The City of Santa Ana public works will be providing cleanup.
OCFA Firefighters responded to a mobile home fire that spread to another unit this morning at 3:21 am. at Harbor between First and McFadden, most likely at the Liberty Mobile Home Park. This was a Two Alarm fire.
The firefighters were able to knock down the fire in one unit. Then they stopped the spread of the blaze. The fire was put out after almost one hour.
No injuries were reported.
Fire investigators were on the scene. No cause determined yet.
Assistance was provided by Fountain Valley Firefighters and the SAPD.
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OCFA firefighters responded to the area of Tustin Ranch Road and Pioneer Way for a traffic collision at 11:16 pm last night.
On arrival, the fire crew found a single vehicle that appeared to have been traveling at a high rate of speed and lost control.
The car collided with a large tree that was thrown 20-30 feet away from the point of impact, and split the car.
The driver and passenger were at least partially ejected and the car caught fire.
Both occupants were treated by firefighter paramedics and transported to the hospital.
The accident happened a block south of OCFA Fire Station #43 just west of the OCFA headquarters in Tustin.
OCFA Firefighters responded to a fire at 17th St & Cabrillo Park Dr. for a commercial structure fire this morning.
The fire crews rescued a woman from the second floor of the two-story commercial building fire. Firefighter paramedics tended to her injuries.
The fire was knocked down at about 9:30 a.m.
No word yet as to the cause of the fire which remains under investigation.
The building where the fire occurred is the Hill View Building. It is the location of a medical weight loss center as well as an income tax preparer and other offices.
SAPD police officers respond to the area of the 2000 block of S. Olive Street in reference to a call of an arson and a assault with a deadly weapon.
The responding police officers arrested the suspect and assisted the OCFA firefighters in evacuating the residents of the burning home.
Due to the quick actions taken by responding police officers and OCFA firefighters, all of the residents were rescued safely with minor injuries.
The incident happened a couple blocks north of Memorial Park and a few blocks east of Mater Dei High School.
OCFA firefighters brought a patient to the UCI Medical Center in Orange early on Tuesday morning, at around 1:40 a.m. While the firefighters were loading medical gear onto the fire truck, a suspect jumped into the vehicle and took off.
The suspect did not realize that OCFA fire trucks are equipped with GPS trackers which allowed the CHP to give chase as the suspect drove through many Orange County cities, including Fountain Valley and Irvine.
The pursuit finally came to Anaheim, near Ball Road and Brookhurst Street, when something unexpected happened.
An unidentified man walked up into the stopped fire truck’s path and placed his hand on the window.
The suspect tried to back up the fire truck repeatedly to go around the man but was never able to get the truck past him.
The man outside the fire truck then exchanged words with the suspect.
Finally, at around 3 a.m., the suspect got out of the fire truck and surrendered to the police. The unidentified driver was taken into custody without further incident.
The man who stopped the fire truck thief walked away. Police later said he was homeless.
The fire truck sustained minor damage during the chase.
Fire broke out at the 1300 block of N Custer St. in Santa Ana’s Logan Neighborhood early this morning, before 1 a.m.
OCFA Firefighters found a detached garage fire spreading to adjacent homes.
It took fire crews 20 min. to get it under control.
No injuries were reported and no cause has been determined yet.
Assistance was provided by the SAPD.
A 2 alarm commercial fire broke out at the 3000 block of Harvard in Santa Ana just past 12 midnight. The fire occurred just east of the Heritage Museum of Orange County, south of Godinez High School and Centennial Park and less than a mile from the Yale Transitional Center, an O.C. homeless shelter.
The responding OCFA firefighters utilized a defensive strategy to prevent the spread of fire to nearby buildings.
No injuries to the firefighters or civilians were reported. The cause of the blaze is under investigation. OCFA investigators were at the scene.
The fire was knocked down just past 1:30 a.m. The fire crews remained on scene for hours overhauling the structure.
Assistance was provided by the Costa Mesa and Fountain Valley Fire Departments as well as the SAPD.
The Westminster Police Department received a call about an unconscious person near a public restroom at Sigler Park, located in Westminster, on Saturday, Nov. 13, at about 6 p.m. But when the police officers arrived they found not just one person down – in total there were five people who were unresponsive.
The responding Westminster police officers suspected the victims had overdosed on drugs. They administered Narcan, which introduces Naloxone to victims of Opiod overdoses via their nose.
When the OCFA paramedics arrived they took the victims to local hospitals where they remained today.
An OCFA Hazmat team was also dispatched to the park, which was evacuated, to assist with the cleanup of the suspected drug residue.
Why five people were taking opioids at a public park is a question the police did not address in their press release.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. It is a major contributor to fatal and nonfatal overdoses in the U.S, according to the CDC.
Just before 5:30 tonight OCFA firefighting crews in Santa Ana extinguished a fence fire before it could catch a detached classroom at a school on fire.
The call occurred in the area of Flower/Alton, near MacArthur Fundamental Intermediate School.
Why do you suppose a fence would catch fire?
Two adults and one child were displaced after an attic fire damaged their home at the 2000 block of S. Sycamore St., in Santa Ana, this morning. The fire was reported at 7:49 a.m.
It took firefighters approximately 15 minutes to get the fire knocked down. No injuries reported and the cause is under investigation.
The fire took place about a block west of Main St. near the South Main Business District.
Just after 9 p.m. last night OCFA firefighters arrived to find 12 cypress trees on fire at a mobile home park at the 1500 block of N. Newhope St., in Santa Ana.
Four residents were displaced due to damage their home sustained, however multiple homes were spared damage due to a quick knock down of the fire. No injuries were reported.
The cause of the fire is under investigation. The SAPD assisted at the scene.
Patrick Andrew Ceniceros, 61, of Tustin, is heading to prison for 18 years to life after being sentenced on Friday for setting a five-alarm arson fire last year at a Tustin apartment building killed a pet dog and displaced about 100 residents. He was given credit for 599 days in custody which means he will get out of prison even sooner.
Ceniceros pleaded guilty on May 24 to aggravated arson with property damage in excess of $8.3 million, arson of an inhabited structure, arson of property and cruelty to animals, all felonies. He also admitted sentencing enhancements for using an acceleration device in an arson.
He was previously convicted for attempted murder in October of 2009 in San Bernardino County, and served 8 years in prison for that crime.
Ceniceros set the fire when the residents were asleep, which could have killed many of the apartment’s residents. The fire was reported at about 3 a.m. at Chatham Village apartments at 15751 Williams St., near McFadden Avenue. The fire burned so intensely that it caused the apartment’s roof to collapse. The fire started on the first floor but quickly grew into the second floor and the attic. It took almost five hours for 120 firefighters to finally extinguish the arson fire.
Ceniceros has been in jail since Feb. 12, 2020, after he made incriminating statements when he was interviewed by OCFA investigators about the blaze.
The apartment building was considered to be a total loss even though some of the lower units were not burned as those units were damaged by the water and smoke.