O.C. juvenile detention center is evacuated

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> Sixty-one teenage boys living in Joplin Youth Center for juveniles in Trabuco Canyon were evacuated about 6 a.m. to Santa Ana’s Youth Guidance Center.

The boys, mostly ages 13 to 15, will stay in the center’s gym, where bunkbeds have been set up to resemble the Joplin dormitory.

They could be at the center until Saturday, said Vicki Mathews, a spokeswoman for the Orange County Probation Department.

Joplin Youth Center has been untouched by fire as of 10 a.m., Mathews said.

-- My-Thuan Tran