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<\/a>A fire at a North Park home on Wednesday was started by a candle left unattended on a sofa, said Maurice Luque, spokesman for the San Diego Fire Department.<\/p>\nThe blaze at 2916 Copley Ave. began just after 3:00 p.m. A neighbor, Marilynn Meshekow, said she smelled smoke and saw high flames coming from the house. <\/p>\n
\u201cI thought it was a canyon fire,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was shooting through electric wires.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meshekow ran inside to call 9-1-1. She said the engine arrived \u201cin less than 30 seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n
Engine 18 from Normal Heights happened to be traveling Adams Avenue a few blocks south of Copley Avenue when firefighters saw smoke and arrived on scene, Luque said. He said the fire was knocked down in 10 minutes.<\/p>\n
Luque said Engine 14 from North Park typically would have responded with Engine 18 but was subject to a \u201cbrownout\u201d closure. Instead, engines from Little Italy, Hillcrest and East San Diego joined the effort. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a delay\u201d due to Engine 14 being unavailable, Luque said.<\/p>\n
The house, which is rented by a man and his daughter, was unoccupied at the time of the fire. A dog was reportedly in the house but was missing after the fire. Luque said fire fighters were searching the canyon behind the house for the dog.<\/p>\n
The fire caused $350,000 in structural damage and $150,000 to the home\u2019s contents. A rented cottage and surrounding houses were unaffected by the fire, although Luque did say there was \u201cpotential\u201d for the fire to reach the canyon but mild winds helped avoid the fire\u2019s spread.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
by Christy Scannell SDUN Senior Editor A fire at a North Park home on Wednesday was started by a candle left unattended on a sofa, said Maurice Luque, spokesman for the San Diego Fire Department. The blaze at 2916 Copley Ave. began just after 3:00 p.m. A neighbor, Marilynn Meshekow, said she smelled smoke and […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1287,"featured_media":243425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"North Park house fire caused by unattended candle","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}