38 Banning residents displaced after fire destroys newly-built temporary homes
A total of 38 people are without a home after a fire tore through a Banning community Saturday afternoon. The fire erupted at about 12:48 p.m. on the 1900 block of E. Ramsey Street. The first engine got on scene and said there was multiple structures on fire, said Riverside County and Calfire Batt. Chief William Otterman.
The community was built in April to house several homeless people, and came to be known as Ramsey Street Village. There’s 20 total pods there and 19 of them were destroyed and 1 was heavily damaged, said Batt. Chief Otterman.