College roof collapses as California pummeled by stormAt least 10 people were injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. after torrential rain caused a school roof to collapse as a winter storm pummeled parts of California on Monday, reports and officials said. The accident occurred at a technical college in Anaheim south of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. after a blocked drain buckled under the weight of water. Television footage showed a large crater in the ceiling of the building. Ten people were reported to have suffered "mild to moderate" injuries in the accident, reports said. Television reports showed victims on stretchers being wheeled into ambulances. "The ceiling fell down, everyone was panicking and started running ... some people were trying to step on other people," student Cecilia Roman told local ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. 7 television. The incident came as parts of southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, was deluged by between 1.5 to 3 inches of rain and thick snow in mountainous regions. The storm forced the evacuation of residents in areas hit by recent wildfires as rain soaked fire-denuded hillsides, officials said. Orange County Fire Authority The Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for unincorporated areas of Orange County, California and cities that contract OCFA's services. officials said a mandatory evacuation was now in place in several neighborhoods of Yorba Linda Yorba Linda (yôr`bə lĭn`də), city (1990 pop. 52,422), Orange co., S Calif., in a region of citrus fruit; inc. 1967. The city has grown tremendously along with the southern California area; its population increased fivefold between , southeast of Los Angeles, one of the worst-hit areas in November wildfires. It was not immediately clear how many people were the subject of the evacuation orders. Yorba Linda was hit by fires which erupted on November 15 and swept across the region, destroying or damaging over 300 residences and burning more than 30,000 acres (12,100 hectares) before being contained. 
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