WATCH: Large fireplace breaks out on historical Southern California pier

A large fireplace broke out at a vacant eating place on the finish of the Oceanside Pier in North County San Diego on Thursday afternoon, the Oceanside Fireplace Division showed. 

The just about 2,000-foot-long picket pier was once in-built 1888, and is a point of interest of the beachside Southern California town now not a long way from Camp Pendleton. 

“The Oceanside Fireplace Division is lately engaged in preventing a fireplace at the Oceanside Pier,” the dep. wrote on social media Thursday. “We’re asking all electorate to delight avoid the speedy house.” 

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Video of the hearth confirmed smoke billowing up over the pier, which might be observed from so far as Vista, 10 miles east, and Del Mar, 20 miles south, in line with FOX 5 San Diego. 

The hearth additionally perceived to have unfold to Brine Field, a fish shack on the finish of the pier.

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The eating place posted an replace on social media, writing, “What’s taking place at the pier is unhappy and horrifying. We would like you to grasp that our staff is protected. From what we have now heard the hearth began below the pier, and everybody made it off good enough. We will be able to stay you up to date as we be told extra. Thanks for your whole type phrases of toughen. We admire you all such a lot.” 

The Oceanside Pier in Oceanside, Calif.  (Robert Lachman/Los Angeles Occasions by means of Getty Pictures)

The U.S. Coast Guard battled the blaze from the water whilst helicopter drops have been made by way of the Diego County Sheriff’s Division and San Diego Gasoline & Electrical, the station reported. 

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There was no respectable phrase on doable accidents or what will have sparked the blaze.