Oceanside Pier on fire in CA.

[BigmanPigman]

The longest pier on the west coast began burning at 3 PM. Structure damage is a concern for firefighters....

Link to tweet

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/fire-on-oceanside-pier-creates-massive-smoke-plume/3498690/

[Brother Buzz]

1. Watching a live helicopter feed

Looks like the fire originated under the pier. Single business at the end of the long pier, "Ruby's restaurant", has been vacant for three years.

It's still burning up, flames and smoke on both floors. Fire boats mostly knocked down the fire under the pier, but the wood decking around the structure looks like toast and could be dangerous to walk on.

Helicopters are doing effective deluge drops, while the firemen on the pier are shooting water from a safe distance.

I saw a couple of drones doing their thing, so there could be some YouTube footage soon.

[BigmanPigman]

2. They are attacking it from 3 sides...

From below the pier, from helicopters above, and on the actual pier. I thought it was a brush fire at first since it was so big and the smoke was black.

[Brother Buzz]

3. The later helicopters were fighting it just like a wildfire, because they were those big red firefighter helicopters

The earlier drops were little helicopters dropping a small amount of 'brown' fire retardant until the pros from Dover showed up.

[IcyPeas]

4. Good work from all of the fire fighters involved.