The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department ordered evacuations early Thursday morning for the areas of Quest-haven, Harmony Grove and parts of Elfin Forest. Emergency shelters were open at Mission Hills High School and at San Marcos Middle School.
The Cocos Fire was one of several fires to erupt within hours of each other on Wednesday amid unseasonably hot, dry and windy weather conditions. “(The) fire is still very active and continues to move to the south,” Cal Fire Capt. Kendal Bortisser said at 2:30 this morning.
Several thousand San Marcos-area residents were exhausted weekday afternoon and evening, and early this morning. Earlier within the day weekday, field officers cleared Cal State San Marcos. The field can stay closed through weekday and this weekend’s commencement ceremonies are off, in step with university officers. alternative exhausted residents enclosed those from the all neighborhoods south of San Marcos street, as well as Coronado Hills, Discovery Hills, Discovery Meadows, Lake San Marcos and North San Elijo Hills.
A 700-acre hearth in San Marcos that has burned a minimum of 3 homes and one structure south of state Route seventy eight close to Cal State San Marcos was zero p.c contained this morning and continued to force residents from their homes, authorities same. The blaze, dubbed the Cocos hearth, had blackened concerning 700 acres by concerning three a.m. Th and light-emitting diode to the evacuation of the school field and over twenty one,000 residents. Firefighters had no containment on the blaze by early Th morning. the fireplace started for unknown reasons within the space of Cocos Drive concerning 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, sheriff’s Lt. Dave Brown same. The evacuation orders presently followed as flames shot up and smoke crammed the sky.
Deputies presently exhausted residents from the all neighborhoods south of San Marcos street, as well as Coronado Hills, Discovery Hills, Discovery Meadows, Lake San Marcos and North San Elijo Hills. Shortly before ten p.m. Wednesday, a further 600 evacuation notices got for Elfin Forest, Indian Ridge Road, Crestwind Road, Wilgen Drive and Bresa Delaware Loma Drive in San Marcos. Then, around 3:15 a.m. Thursday, the Sheriff’s Department extended the evacuation orders to Questhaven and Harmony Grove residents. Those displaced by the blaze were directed to Mission Hills highschool, one Mission Hills Court, in San Marcos.
