Patients and health care staff were evacuated Thursday from a Chula Vista medical building after smoke began wafting through the three-story facility, according to officials and media reports.
More than 100 people were ordered out of the Chula Vista Medical Plaza on Third Avenue, between I and J streets, just before 9 a.m., due to smoke that triggered the building’s alarms.
An overheated water pump motor on the building’s first floor was the cause of the smoke, Chula Vista fire Battalion Chief Sean Lowery told The San Diego Union-Tribune.
Evacuees assembled in a nearby Sprouts parking lot were allowed back in the building about 9:30 a.m.
There were no reports of injuries.
Chula Vista Medical Plaza is part of San Ysidro Health Center.
–Staff
