The city of Oceanside says Friday that a vacant restaurant and a food service structure are heavily damaged, but no further loss of the pier structure is expected.
A stubborn fire at the end of a landmark wooden pier on the Southern California coast was contained early Friday, authorities said.at 3 p.m. Thursday on the seaward end of the pier in the city of Oceanside, north of San Diego.
Firefighters pulled hoses down the 1,954-foot pier and also battled the flames with water cannons aboard boats and helicopter water drops.A vacant restaurant and a small food service structure were heavily damaged, but no further loss of the pier itself was expected, a city statement said.The current pier opened in 1987. Its predecessors were destroyed by raging surf in 1890 and 1902, according to Visit Oceanside, the city's marketing organization.
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