Crew members who spent all night Thursday battling the Oceanside Pier fire spoke to NBC 7 about their experiences.
“We could tell that we were going to be in for a heck of a night, and we had a lot of work to do,” Sgt. Mike Cranston with the San Diego Lifeguard said“The immense heat and flames, they made it an unstoppable fire for 12 hours,” Sgt. Mike Cranston with the San Diego Lifeguard said.“We could tell that we were going to be in for a heck of a night, and we had a lot of work to do,” Cranston said.
He and two others were on board the Triton, the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department's new high-performance fire boat, designed to put fires out quicker. “That vessel pumps. It’s got three monitors on it. The roof monitor pumps 2,500 gallons a minute. And then the two forward pumps on the bow, they pump 1,500 gallons a minute each, so it can put quite a bit of water on a fire in a short period of time,” Chief James Gartland with San Diego Fire said.
Cranston said they battled the fire for about 20 hours, and, in the future, they plan on replacing some of the older vessels with more fire boats like the Triton. The fire on the Oceanside Pier drew a crowd on the shore, and many tourists and neighbors watched in disbelief as the fire kept burning. NBC 7's Jeanette Quezada reports on April 25, 2024.
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