Fire Station

Mayor Todd Gloria helped break ground Monday on Torrey Pines Fire Station 52 adjacent to UC San Diego that will serve University City and surrounding communities, with completion expected in winter 2024.

A groundbreaking ceremony was held to mark the beginning of construction for a new fire station in Torrey Pines. NBC 7’s Nicole Gomez has details on the project.

The City of Chula Vista has to decide what it will do with two empty lots that used to be fire stations. The old Stations 5 and 9 were demolished last week.

“I’m not opposed necessarily to a fire station, but I’m opposed to the location,” Leisureland Resident Coyote Brown said. The Fairmount Fire Station project which is projected to be over 18,000 square feet is slated to be built near 47th Street and Fairmount Avenue. “It’s on a situation where the land is first of all, sand, it’s built up,...