Watch LIVE: Fire on Oceanside Pier creates massive smoke plume

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/fire-on-oceanside-pier-creates-massive-smoke-plume/3498690/ ^ | 4/25/2023 | Eric S. Page

[marktwain]

Homeless drugged or drunk stupidity or Muslim sabotage?

[dragnet2]

I’d bet arson/insurance job.

[dragnet2]

[NWFree]

No wonder we have such a problem with climate change

[HYPOCRACY]

Round up the PTA!

[Steely Tom]

Is that a solar-powered fire boat?

[Pox]

Too bad it was mostly cloudy today or I probably would have seen the smoke.

Sure were a lot of firefighting resources deployed. Sounds like they’ll save most of the pier.

[SamAdams76]

That's a bummer. When I was stationed at Camp Pendleton with the Marine Corps in the 1980s, I must have walked out on that pier a hundred times. Also did a lot of fishing off that pier back in the day.

Just last October, I flew out to San Diego for a company event and took an Uber to that pier to revisit old memories. It had changed a lot (and for the worse). There were a lot of smelly bums living out of their cars on N. Pacific St.

At the end of that pier was the Top Gun House (from the movie). Now I left Oceanside in 1985 just before that movie came out, so that tourist attraction was new to me.

[rey]

Me too, 81 to 83 at Pendleton. Out on the pier quite a bit.

[ansel12]

I used to hustle women in Oceanside, does that count?

[xp38]

I don’t see any panels. :)

[fishtank]

That looks like a burger - shake joint at the end of the pier.... last time I was there it was either abandoned or being remodeled....

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. I’ve walked that pier during vacation every summer for the last 7 or so years. Horrible.

[2CAVTrooper]

“Is that a solar-powered fire boat?”

Just a black canvas top.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

The structure was once the site of the Ruby's Restaurant, which has stood empty since the business closed three years ago.

We had a home in Oceanside until 1997. We ate at Ruby’s a couple of times.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I started up the new boilers at the Camp Pendleton Hospital in ‘74. I had the pleasure of being in the boiler room when an electrician dropped his fish tape on a 480V bus -— ZAAP!! POOF!! Blinding blue flash arc light. Bzzzt. Now that was excitement. He walked away, too.

Never did walk the pier, though.

[DannyTN]