A fire Sunday at an eight-apartment student housing building on the UC San Diego campus caused about $525,000 in damage and left its residents displaced.
A resident was inside the apartment in the two-story building on Miramar Street in the North Mesa residential apartments complex when the fire broke out shortly after 8:30 p.m. but was able to safely get out before firefighters arrived, San Diego Fire-Rescue Department spokesman Lee Swanson said.
Crews had the fire knocked down in about 20 minutes, Swanson said. A second alarm was called but those units were canceled as the fire was brought under control.
One second-story apartment was gutted by fire, and heat, smoke and water damaged four others, Swanson said. The university’s housing authority was working to assist the building’s residents, who were displaced, he said.
A campus security officer on the scene on Monday confirmed that the residents of the apartments had been temporarily relocated to the Village, a fully-furnished housing area on campus.
Swanson said the fire caused $450,000 in damage to the building and another $75,000 in damage to its contents. Authorities have surveyed the area, but have so far found no cause.
— City News Service contributed to this report
