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Update 11 a.m. -- The fire is now 80% contained. Base officials say live fire operations started the blaze, which has charred 250 acres.
June 27, 2012 (Oceanside) – A brush fire that started yesterday has scorched over 200 acres. According to the North County Times, the blaze started north of the base and was 15% contained late yesterday. No structures were threatened.
“The fire is still active. As of 5:30 a.m. the Camp Pendleton Fire Dept. did not have a percentage of containment," ECM’s in-house Fire Chief Sam DiGiovanna , author of the From the Chief’s Corner column, advised. "Today will be warm and the possibility of “flare-ups” may occur and/or intentional “burning out” targeted areas which ‘may’ or may not cause smoke drift."
Cal-Fire and U.S. Forest Service has been dispatched to battle the blaze.
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