Residents Displaced By Apartment Fire In Hemet

HEMET, CA — Several residents were displaced from their Hemet apartments after a fire broke out in the complex this weekend, it was reported.

The fire was reported around 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Vista Gardens apartment complex at 555 E. Fruitvale Ave., the Press-Enterprise reported, citing Battalion Chief Efrain Vargas of the Hemet Fire Department.

Responding firefighters reported heavy smoke coming from two units on the first and second floors, which later extended to a third unit. The units were red-tagged and electricity was shut down in the entire complex due to the fire exposing and damaging electrical lines.

All 12 units in the complex were affected and all residents were displaced, the newspaper reported.

According to Vargas, one person suffered from minor smoke inhalation, but no additional injuries were reported.

The Southern California Red Cross assisted the displaced residents.

The cause of the fire was not immediately known.

— City News Service