A fast-moving vegetation fire briefly threatened Interstate 215 traffic Thursday afternoon in Riverside before firefighters quickly contained it.
At approximately 3:03 p.m. on July 16, 2026, CAL FIRE/Riverside County Fire, the Riverside Fire Department, and the California Highway Patrol responded to reports of a vegetation fire near the northbound Interstate 215 on-ramp at Alessandro Boulevard.
When CHP officers arrived, they found the fire burning behind several warehouses, with wind pushing the flames toward the freeway and the on-ramp…