Firefighters made quick work to knock down a fire at the Montgomery-Gibbs Airport in Kearny Mesa that shut down air traffic early Friday.<\/p>\n
The fire started at about 3:45 a.m. at the small airport on Aero Drive. When San Diego Fire-Rescue crews arrived, heavy smoke was pouring out of a strip of metal hangars.<\/p>\n
It was difficult for firefighters to gain access but once they did, crews were able to quickly contain flames, SDFD said. <\/p>\n
Capt. Jason Shanley said the concern for firefighters was a couple of highly flammable 11,000-gallon jet fuel containers on the airport. Luckily, they were uninvolved. <\/p>\n
The fire was controlled within 45 minutes. Four structures were affected and two were heavily damaged, Shanley said. The hangars were empty of planes but one vehicle was also destroyed.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire was not yet known. A Hazardous Materials team was there and lithium-ion batteries were found, SDFD said. An investigation would determine if they contributed to the fire. <\/p>\n
Crews will remain on scene for several hours to mop up hot spots. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters made quick work to knock down a fire at the Montgomery-Gibbs Airport in Kearny Mesa that shut…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[79,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-359016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-kearny-mesa","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359016","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=359016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}