One person was injured, an addition was destroyed, and a couple of outbuildings were damaged in a fire in Yucca Valley Tuesday morning. Firefighters from Yucca Valley, Yucca Mesa, and Joshua Tree were called to the 7600 block of Cibola Trail at 9:25 a.m. where they found an addition on the back of the house fully involved with flames. The fire was knocked down in about 10 minutes. County Fire Battalion Chief Donnie Viloria said it was due to aggressive and competent firefighting that crews were able to save the house from being destroyed and the residents will be able to move back in. However, a couple of outbuildings behind the house were completely destroyed by the blaze.
Viloria said the home’s occupants were outside waiting for firefighters when they arrived, and a man, identified only as being in his 20s, suffered second degree burns to his upper extremities. Viloria said that the fact that he was taken to Hi-Desert Medical Center indicates the burns were not life-threatening.
The cause of the fire is unknown and investigators from the Sheriff and Fire Department’s Bomb and Arson units were called to the scene.
Viloria added that complicating the efforts of firefighters to put out the fire at the home on Cibola Trail was a call of a vegetation fire at 10:33 at Cherokee Trail and Sunland Drive in Yucca Valley, that required a crew to leave the house fire to fight the vegetation fire. He added that the area of the fire was small—only 20 feet by 20 feet, and that it was completely unrelated to the house fire on Cibola Trail.
