A brush fire ignited Monday afternoon and quickly spread at Camp Pendleton, creating a smoke plume that was visible to many communities in North County, officials said.<\/p>\n
The fire, named the Pipeline Fire, began on Range 501 near Edson Ridge in the southwest corner of the base around 2:10 p.m. and quickly spread in moderate fuels, officials said.<\/p>\n
Within three hours, it had grown to 919 acres, according to Cal Fire officials.<\/p>\n
\u201cSmoke is visible from the surrounding area and throughout the county,\u201d Cal Fire officials said.<\/p>\n
Base officials announced evacuations for Areas 32 and 33 on the base, and said the Paige Field House will serve as the evacuation center.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirefighting aircraft are actively working to protect critical infrastructure and structures in the area,\u201d Pendleton officials said in a statement posted to Facebook. \u201cPersonnel and members of the public should continue to avoid the affected area and follow directions from emergency personnel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cal Fire was assisting the Camp Pendleton Fire officials in responding to the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A brush fire ignited Monday afternoon and quickly spread at Camp Pendleton, creating a smoke plume that was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[138,181,23,100,74,76,75,1696],"class_list":["post-388700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-top-stories-sdut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388700","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=388700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}