Updates of Fires break out in Diamond Bar
Multiple fires broke out along the 60 Freeway in Diamond Bar today, threatening homes, causing traffic backups and prompting a massive response from firefighters.
More than 250 firefighters and numerous aircraft battled what appeared to be eight fires that were reported around 11:45 a.m. in the hills south of the 60 Freeway between the 57 and 71 freeways. No homes were lost, but the flames came close to several upscale hillside subdivisions.
Students at Diamond Ranch High School took shelter in the gymnasium and prepared to be evacuated if needed, but Pomona Unified School District officials said the campus was not threatened by the fire.
The water drops significantly reduced the spread of the fires, which appeared to be dying down as of about 1:30 p.m.
Updates of Fires break out in Diamond Bar
“It looked like every 500 yards someone had taken a Molotov cocktail and thrown it off the freeway,” she said. Quince, 40, immediately headed to nearby Diamond Ranch High School, where her 15-year-old daughter, Raven, is a sophomore. But Quince and many other parents were not allowed past a roadblock set up by authorities in front of the school’s only entrance.
Dozens of nervous parents stood on a smoky freeway overpass on Phillips Ranch Road talking on cellphones and to each other.
For mother Laura Perez, 38, the inability to see her 15-year-old son Cristian was frustrating. He had called her from his cellphone earlier. “He sounded afraid,” she said. “I wish I could be there for him.” Some students, like freshman Jaclyn Martinez, managed to be picked up by parents who navigated around the roadblock.
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