Homeless eviction begins at Fountain Valley encampment

Lisa Weber, 57, who suffers from depression and has been homeless on-and-off for 30 years, moves all of her remaining belongings in a shopping cart across the street as she and fellow campers face eviction on Friday from their large homeless encampment between Warner Ave. and Edinger Ave. along the Santa Ana River trail on the border of Fountain Valley and Santa Ana.

Syringes are left behind Friday along the banks of the Santa Ana River as authorities move forward with evicting a large population of homeless people from the area.

Orange County Sheriff’s deputies, along with Anaheim and Santa Ana police officers, walk through a large homeless encampment Friday between Warner and Edinger avenues along the Santa Ana River trail.

Officers walk through a large homeless encampment to enforce an eviction notice that began Friday along a stretch of the Santa Ana River trail on the border of Fountain Valley and Santa Ana.

Larry Ford, 53, a U.S. Army veteran, who suffers from depression, looks in the mirror while shaving outside his tent. Ford joins a large group of homeless people who face eviction on Friday from their encampment along the Santa Ana River trail.

Ivan Reyes, who has been living in the Santa Ana River trail homeless encampment for the past two months, carries an American flag along with his belongings Friday.

Lisa Weber, 57, sleeps next to her belongings packed on the sidewalk and her car. Weber said she had nowhere else to go after being evicted from the Santa Ana River trail.