By MARK MUCKENFUSS
The Press-Enterprise
ADELANTO, Calif. — A prison riot Saturday sent 17 inmates of the Desert View Corrections facility in Adelanto to area hospitals.
Tim Franke, a spokesman for the San Bernardino County Fire Department, said the agency responded to a call at 4 p.m.
Over the course of the evening, Franke said, 16 more inmates with undetermined injuries were transported to hospitals in the Victorville and San Bernardino areas.
Rick McClintock is the battalion chief at the county’s Adelanto fire station. The station, McClintock said, is next door to the prison.
McClintock said three engine companies responded, and 10 fire personnel were involved.
Two inmates were treated on scene. The most seriously injured inmate was airlifted to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton. The extent of his injuries and his identity were not released.
Firefighters left the prison shortly after 10 p.m.
Nathanial Peinado, a spokesman for American Medical Response in Rancho Cucamonga, said the company sent seven ambulances to the prison.
People answering the phone at Desert View Corrections, a privately run prison, said they had no comment.
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