Fire consumes Indio home during scorching heat wave

A fire ignited and destroyed about half of an Indio home Friday afternoon.

The fire was reported just after 2 p.m. in the 46000 block of Padua Circle, a cul-de-sac road just west of the Riverside County Fairgrounds. Half of the single-story home was burning when firefighters arrived, according to Tawny Cabral of the Riverside County Fire Department.

Thirty-one firefighters with nine engine companies on scene were able to contain the fire at 3:02 p.m., Cabral said.

No injuries were reported.

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