A two-alarm brush fire that threatened homes in Encinitas is now out North Comm confirmed.
The fire started Sunday evening after a weekend of hot, dry and windy weather.
"It seemed very close. There was a lot of glow in the sky," resident Sam Dale said. "We walked down to the end of the street to see what the situation might be. You couldn't tell if it was lapping up to a home or down in the canyon."
Dale was relaxing in his backyard when he smelled smoke. Once in the front yard he saw the swarm of fire engines.
The fire started in the 1000 block of Camino Real and Town Center Drive just before 8 p.m.
"When I first arrived behind Home Depot it was maybe 100 yards or less from the top of the houses. And it really wasn't doing too much until it got to the top of the hill," Batallion Chief Robbie Ford with Encinitas Fire said. "Once it got to the top of the hill it really kind of started to take off towards the south a little bit."
Ford said the large amount of brush on the ridge heavily fueled the blaze.
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The fire was out by 8:30 p.m. A quarter of an acre burned, but there were no reported injuries or homes damaged.
The incident has been turned over to fire marshals to further investigate and find a cause.
Encinitas wasn't the only community threatened by fire Sunday. Cal Fire crews were called to a brush fire that destroyed vehicles in a small cul-de-sac near San Marcos.
Read more on that story here.
