MIRAMARMIRAMAR — A prescribed burn that jumped containment lines at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Saturday charred nearly 90 acres before firefighters got the blaze under control.
The fire broke out around 2:10 p.m. near the intersection of Kearny Villa Road and Camp Elliott Road, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.
The blaze began as a prescribed burn, a planned fire that is set and controlled to reduce the risk of a wildfire, according to Cal Fire. The two-day burn began around 6:45 a.m., and the Miramar Fire Department intended to char 57 acres.
The department’s prescribed fire program, which averages 250 acres of vegetation treatment annually, is needed to reduce wildfire risk on base posed by “the combination of chaparral plant communities, open space, climate and human activities,” according to an information sheet posted to the department’s Instagram page.
By afternoon, the fire had broken containment lines.
The San Diego fire department said via a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, they were sending five brush engines and a helicopter to assist in battling the blaze. The fire had reached 15 acres by 2:25 p.m. with a slow to moderate rate of spread.
https://x.com/SDFD/status/1799553245188436315Cal Fire was also called in to assist, and sent two air tankers, one helicopter, one hand crew and one battalion chief, said Capt. Brent Pascua.
By 3:30 p.m., the state’s Fire Integrated Real-time Intelligence System mapped the fire to 89.2 acres.
Two hours later, the San Diego Fire Department announced on X that fire crews had stopped the progress of the fire.
