A new fire at Camp Pendleton in southern California grew rapidly after it started at 3:15 p.m. Thursday. A 5:09 a.m. update on Friday from the base said it had burned 8,000 acres and was 5 percent contained. Several areas on the base have been evacuated. Little other information about the fire is available, other than evacuation areas, since the Marines rarely allow reporters on the base when a fire is burning.
A total of 19 military helicopters are providing fire suppression support to firefighters in southern California, including eight Marine Corps CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters, seven CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters and four UH-1Y Huey helicopters.
#wildfire #camppendleton #hmla #laspulgasfire #calfire #ch46 pic.twitter.com/qqBArb0ZDd
— Demetrios Marinides (@dmarinides) May 16, 2014
#Wildfire at Camp Pendleton across street from San Onofre, CA #nuclear plant. pic.twitter.com/xJBqXk7zgk — Beyond Nuclear (@BeyondNuclear) May 14, 2014
@ABCNewsLive @brandon_rosser and it’s all coming to Temecula…..??????