A car fire briefly closed eastbound Highway 62 in Yucca Valley yesterday. At 12:33 pm, a car being driven eastbound on the highway caught fire in Old Town Yucca Valley, just east of C&S Coffee Shop. Deputies arrived on scene before the firefighters and made eastbound traffic detour on to Elk Trail.
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County Fire Captain Bolesworth told Z107.7 News that the driver was coming from Palm Springs and noticed as he was driving up the Yucca Grade that the car started to run “funny.” As he pulled into Yucca Valley, people started pointing at his car and he pulled over and it caught on fire. The car was fully engulfed in flames when Joshua Tree firefighters arrived about 12:45. The cause of the fire is unknown at this time.
