There were plenty of well-qualified first responders around when a fire truck broke out in flames in the garage of a Lakeside fire station. https://t.co/ndQwmqSM8F pic.twitter.com/ERABG1HeP6
— NBC 7 San Diego (@nbcsandiego) January 27, 2018
A fire Friday afternoon destroyed a fire truck in a repair bay at Lakeside Fire District in San Diego County, California.
Crews smelled smoke at Lakeside Fire District’s (LFD) station in the 14000 block of Highway 8 Business at about 1 p.m., LFD Division Chief John Hisaw said. Firefighters went outside and found one of their fire trucks in flames.
The fire was stopped before it could spread to the firehouse and no one was injured, but the 5-year-old truck was destroyed.
The fire truck, valued at about $600,000, was in the station’s repair shop for routine maintenance at the time of the fire, Hisaw said. It’s a total loss, but LFD did have insurance on the engine.
COMMERCIAL STRUCTURE FIRE: Lakeside Fire Station 3 vehicle repair shop; discovered by on-duty fs3 crews; Div4104 (Hisaw) is I-8 IC; fire contained to single apparatus (engine) w/no extension to bldg. pic.twitter.com/zJeaPO9rz6
— Lakeside Fire (LKS) (@LakesideFire) January 26, 2018
