Two Burnt in Temecula Early Morning Fire

By City News Service, image via Shutterstock

Two people were hospitalized early Saturday as a fire burned in the hills south of Old Town Temecula.

The fire was reported at about 3 a.m. in brush south of the Main Street Apartments in Temecula, Riverside County spokeswoman April Newman said.

Firefighters located a small fire in the hills southwest of Main at Pujol streets. It was contained at 4:40 a.m.

The two burn victims were taken to a hospital with what paramedics described as moderate injuries.

No information about the cause of the fire, nor how the two people came to be burned in it, was released.