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Storms And Floods Hit Desert And Surrounding Areas Thursday

More thunderstorms struck today over western Riverside County and the San Jacinto Mountains, dropping hail, downing utility lines, flooding valley roads and raising concerns about lightning-sparked wildfires. A late-afternoon storm system moving about 5 mph southwest from Hemet over Homeland, Winchester, Menifee and Lake Elsinore was “capable of producing golf ball size hail” and “winds

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Police Search For Car Burglary Suspects

Indio police and the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department were searching for two men wanted for breaking into cars and stealing some of the contents inside. The thefts reportedly happened in Palm Desert on Thursday morning. Around 9:30 a.m., Indio police and Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies said they possibly spotted the suspects in the area of

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Brush Fire Burns One Acre

Firefighters are trying to figure out what started a one acre brush fire Tuesday night. The fire was off of Golf Center Parkway in Indio and broke out just after 10 pm. Six engines and two dozen firefighters knocked down the flames in about thirty minutes. No structures were threatened and no injuries were reported.

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Storm Sparks Fires In Parts Of Riverside County

Towering thunderheads produced multiple lightning strikes and intense rain in southwest Riverside County, igniting spot fires from east of Temecula to south of Perris this afternoon, Riverside County fire officials said. “We’ve had multiple lightning strikes and we don’t even know how many fires we have,” Cheri Patterson of the Riverside County Fire Department said

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