SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — The forward rate of spread has been stopped after a brush fire erupted in the Rancho Bernardo area Friday afternoon.
Those who live near the fire told ABC 10News it's startling to say the least.
“We hear sirens, so I walk out to the living room and someone's like pounding our door down,” Dylan Turner, who lives near the Bernardo Fire, said. “So I opened the door and then he like points and there's just like a whole wave just right in front right there.”
According to the Watch Duty app, the fire near the intersection of Camino Del Norte and Bernardo Center Drive was about 12 acres in size as of 4:30 p.m., and it had a moderate rate of spread, incident command reported.
"Whether it be Cal Fire, Escondido, Ranch Santa Fe, Poway. Everyone came in here and helped San Marcos. Everyone came in and helped on this. I think we had about 10 different agencies here all working together to ensure we stop this,” Assistant Chief Dan Eddy of San Diego Fire-Rescue said.
Watch Duty says firefighters asked law enforcement to close Camino Del Norte as they work to put it out. As of 5:30 p.m., the evacuation warnings were lifted. San Diego Fire-Rescue also told ABC 10News that no structures were damaged.
““They came quick too; shut everything down. I mean they had people on the hill in the first like 15 minutes it started.” Turner said.
Click here for a live view of the evacuation map via Genasys.
The fire started near the Christopher Hill County Preserve.
This incident happened as construction was tentatively set on Friday at Cal Fire’s Ramona Air Attack Base to make way for the new C-130 plane.
“We had a great response from Cal Fire come back with their fixed wing coming in here,” Eddy said adding that the air attack from Cal Fire go to the incident very quick.
Cal Fire told ABC 10News it’s firefighting planes are still able to fly out of Ramona.
But when they need to refill, they’ll have to go to Hemet Air Base to do so.
Eddy said if there was construction, he said all agencies are prepared for a coordinated attack on any fire.
“Even though they're going to Hemet for that refill, it's a pretty quick turnaround for them to do so. If this was going to go an operational period where we realized this was going to go in tomorrow and the next day, like a larger fire, like a Rancho Bernardo fire that we've had before, right? Cal Fire has the ability to set up at Brownfield, a remote fill station, so we have a quicker turnaround time,” Eddy said.
“It's a great thing that they've set up. It's not set up all the time, but we can make that call to have them help out.”
Eddy also told ABC 10News they have extra helicopters prepared just in case to do water drops even if there wasn’t the construction.
It was a welcome sight watching crews knock down the blaze.
“I mean, I love it and I support them for it,” Turner said.
WATCH REPLAY: Sky 10 flew above the fire to get an aerial view of the scene
