Yellow tape strung across the 44000 block of Highway 74 in Valle Vista, east of Hemet, prevents traffic from passing as an investigation of a car crashing through a home and setting it on fire occurred Monday, April 28. More than a dozen pieces of fire apparatus were called to the scene for fear of a resulting explosion. Valley News/Tony Ault photo
A car crashed through a house on Highway 74, east of Hemet, setting it on fire and required the closure of the highway to the mountain communities of Idyllwild and Mountain Center Monday, April, 28, according to the California Highway Patrol and Cal Fire.The full closure of the busy highway followed the event that occurred around 3 p.m. and lasted for more than three hours with more than a dozen fire and law enforcement units called to the scene. Sheriff’s deputies, firefighters and CHP officers, fearing the possibility of an explosion as a result of the fire and car crash, strung yellow tape across both ends of the highway to prevent motorists from travelling by the mobile home community where the accident and house fire occurred.The condition or any injuries of the driver and a
