Fire knocked down at Presidio Park after threatening historic presidio

SAN DIEGO (CNS) — Firefighters knocked down a half-acre vegetation fireplace off Taylor Road that was threatening the historic San Diego Presidio Sunday.

The fireplace was burning in medium to heavy fuels with a average fee of unfold, however firefighters on the scene reported the fireplace had been knocked down at 5:25 p.m. They indicated they’d be on the scene for about two hours for mop-up operations.

A full wildland response with a helicopter was began by the San Diego Hearth-Rescue Division. San Diego Police Division requested to close down Taylor Road in each instructions.

Hearth crews have been checking the Presidio for any injury.

Royal Presidio of San Diego is an historic fort established on Could 14, 1769, by Gaspar de Portol, chief of the primary European land exploration of Alta California.

The Presidio was the primary everlasting European settlement on the Pacific Coast of the present-day United States. As the primary of the presidios and Spanish missions in California, it was the bottom of operations for the Spanish colonization of California.

The related Mission San Diego de Alcal later moved just a few miles away.

Deserted by 1835, the positioning of the unique Presidio lies on a hill inside Presidio Park. The San Diego Presidio was registered as a California Historic Landmark in 1932, then declared a Nationwide Historic Landmark in 1960.