No one was injured when a mobile home caught fire in Joshua Tree Wednesday morning. County Fire Battalion Chief Mike McClintock said crews from Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley, and Yucca Mesa were called to the 6100 block of Valley View about 10:15 a.m. where they found smoke showing from a double-wide mobile home. Firefighters found a room and its contents on fire, with flames extending into the attic space above. The blaze was knocked down in about 15 minutes. McClintock said the home was under renovation at the time of the fire, and the cause appears to be accidental.
A mobile home under renovation was damaged by fire in Joshua Tree Wednesday.
One person received minor injuries in a four-vehicle crash in Joshua Tree Wednesday morning. According to the California Highway Patrol, Joseph McCloskey Jr., 42, of Twentynine Palms, was driving westbound on Highway 62 about 11:49 when he ran the red light at Park Boulevard and the highway. His 2013 Nissan Altima struck a 2016 Kia, driven by Farah Korhonen, 19, of Joshua Tree, who was driving southbound on Park Boulevard. Inside Korhonen’s vehicle was a 1-year-old child, also of Joshua Tree. McCloskey’s Nissan glanced off the Kia and continued westbound, and struck two vehicles that were stopped eastbound at the traffic light. One vehicle was a 2019 Subaru Cross Trek, driven by Carrie Baldwin, 38, of San Dimas; the other vehicle was a 2010 Toyota Camry, driven by Michael Badalian, 41, of Twentynine Palms. After the collision, Lucrecia Badalian, 33, of Twentynine Palms, the passenger in the Camry, was taken to Hi-Desert Medical Center with minor injuries. Korhonen was the only on