Firefighters worked by ground and air to put out a brush fire that sparked off of Interstate 8 at Qualcomm Way, west of the Interstate 805 interchange.
The fire burned in a brush patch at the center of the loop of the westbound I-8 off-ramp to Texas Street and Qualcomm Way and grew to about a quarter acre.
An SDFD helicopter was filling its bucket in the San Diego River and making airdrops over the blaze.
A Sig Alert was issued and the off-ramp was shut down. A large plume of grey smoke could be seen above the fire from miles away.
SDFD said the fire sparked just before 3 p.m. A cause of the fire has yet to be determined.
No other information was available.
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