Two families were displaced from their Carmel Valley townhome after it went up in flames earlier this afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This happened just before 3 p.m. on Moratalla Terrace.\u00a0 Fire investigators said the fire started inside a garage unit because of faulty electrical equipment and robotics projects.\u00a0 One neighbor said she’s thankful for the quick response.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe people that own the house were in the driveway calling 911, and within, I think within five minutes of me smelling the smoke the fire trucks were here,\u201d said Nikki Briggs.\u00a0 I\u2019m just thankful that everyone was okay, and that it didn\u2019t keep spreading.\u00a0 Like if it would have been a wildfire, that would have been terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Firefighters say most of the damage was contained in the garage.\u00a0 A total of nine people were displaced by the fire.\u00a0 Five people lived inside the unit that burned.\u00a0 Thankfully all of them made it out safely without any injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two families were displaced from their Carmel Valley townhome after it went up in flames earlier this afternoon.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[11027,175,74,11113,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-242892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-carmel-valley","9":"tag-fires","10":"tag-san-diego","11":"tag-san-diego-fire-rescue-department","12":"tag-san-diego-headlines","13":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}