Foul play Woman's body found after firefighters battle Rialto apartment fire

RIALTO - Police and fire
officials are investigating a possible homicide after a woman's body was
found when firefighters fought a fire at 2:20 a.m. Saturday in the 600
block of south Riverside Avenue that forced the evacuation of 90
residents, a Rialto Fire Department spokesman said.
Family members identified the deceased woman as 64-year-old Rosa "Rosita" Hernandez.

"She didn't deserve this gruesome way to die," said Hernandez's niece,
Alma Trujillo who lived in the complex along with many other family
members.

Nearly a dozen family members, including Trujillo, her children and
grandchildren, sat across the street early Saturday afternoon covered by
blankets brought to them by Rialto firefighters hoping to get some
answers to what they feel is a senseless crime.

"She was the nicest lady," said Trujillo's 21-year-old son, George
Bailon. "She never did anything to anyone. You'd always just see her
outside watering the grass saying hi to everyone."

Soon after the fire broke out, neighbors smelled smoke and realized it
was coming from Hernadez's downstairs apartment, according Trujillo and
initial dispatch reports.

"The neighbors went and pulled her out," a still stunned Trujillo said.

She wasn't aware there was a fire or that her aunt had been hurt until
Rialto police officers knocked on her door and told Trujillo and her
family they had to evacuate the building.

As she and her family, including small children still in diapers, were
escorted out of the complex, they had to walk past Hernadez's body.

"I just saw her right there," Trujillo said. "I thought so many things
and didn't know what to think. I can't believe anyone would do something
like this to her."

Forty firefighters fought the fire and contained it to one apartment.
The complex was completely evacuated because it's being treated as a
crime scene.

Little information is being released on the death investigation,
although family members say it doesn't appear she died as a result of
the fire.

"When my auntie and her niece took over the apartment, they really
cleaned it up," Trujillo said. "They came in and started changing the
place. They kicked people out and did other things to make the place
better. That's the only reason I decided to move here because the cops
used to be here all the time before they got here."

The Red Cross is working on temporary shelter for the residents. Rialto
is placing some residents in the Johnson Community Center, 214 N. Palm
Ave.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.






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