Crime & Safety
Multiple Fires Burning On Camp Pendleton
According to base spokesman 1st Lt. Ryan Welsh, the blazes are burning in the Whiskey, Zulu and Quebec impact areas.
Five small brush fires apparently sparked by military exercises spread over open training grounds at Camp Pendleton amid sweltering late-summer heat Friday.
The spate of non-injury blazes began erupting toward the center of the Marine Corps installation in the early afternoon, USMC Lt. Ryan Welsh said.
As military crews were working to contain those four fires, a fifth broke out toward the south end of the base about 4 p.m. Within 90 minutes, personnel had contained that burn area to about six acres.
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There were no known structural threats in the early evening, though the flames were "sending up a lot of smoke," Welsh said.
—City News Service
