One woman died after she was pulled from a flood channel Thursday morning, Feb. 14, by rescue crews in Corona, and at least 30 others were pulled from rushing waters in rivers, flood channels and inundated roads across Riverside County.
The slew of rescues began just after 5 a.m. when rescue crews with the Corona Fire Department pulled 7 people out of a flood channel in the Auburndale area of Corona. Within the next hour, crews with the Riverside County Fire Department pulled one person from the middle of Temecula Creek, while crews freed five others from their vehicles stuck on a flooded roadway in Menifee using boats. None were injured. Before noon, crews were called to a flood channel near McKinley Avenue and the 91 Freeway where two were stuck among storm waters.