Vacant Lakeside Home Goes Up in Flames

A vacant home in Lakeside and an abandoned clubhouse in San Diego's Allied Gardens neighborhood caught fire early Monday about an hour apart but no one was hurt, authorities said.

The first fire at the vacant home in the area of Lemon Crest and Single Oak drives in Lakeside was reported just after 1 a.m., according to a Heartland fire dispatcher. Crews had most of the blaze out a little more than an hour later, she said.

A couple told KGTV 10 News they were preparing to move in once utility service was set up at the vacant home, which was about 3,000 square feet.

Crews responded to this morning's second structure fire at 1:53 a.m. A clubhouse in an abandoned mobile home park in the area of Greenbrier Avenue and Mission Gorge Road caught fire, according to a San Diego fire-rescue dispatcher. It was knocked down within about 40 minutes, he said.

Today marked the second time this month San Diego fire-rescue was called to douse a fire in the abandoned mobile home park. Around 2:30 a.m. last Wednesday, a fire broke out in a roughly 20-by-35-foot outbuilding in the park.

The cause of the fires was under investigation. This morning's fires occurred about 13 miles apart.

-City News Service