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Car fire prompts dozens to evacuate University City apartment building

Firefighters arrived and found flames coming from four vehicles in a parking garage below the three-story apartment building.

SAN DIEGO — A blaze broke out Friday morning in a parking garage below a three-story apartment building in the University City neighborhood, prompting evacuations and damaging four vehicles, authorities said.

Dispatchers received reports around 3:25 a.m. of a vehicle fire in the 3500 block of Lebon Drive, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue department.

Firefighters arrived and found flames coming from four vehicles in a parking garage below the three-story apartment building, a fire department dispatch supervisor said.

Multiples apartment units were evacuated, though the exact number was not immediately available.

Crews knocked down the flames within 30 minutes, before the fire extended to any of the apartment units, the dispatch supervisor said. One resident told News 8 he cut his foot on a stairway as he was trying to get out of the building.

The blaze caused an estimated $20,000 in damage to the parking garage and $100,000 in damage to the vehicles, the dispatch supervisor said.

Metro Arson Strike Team investigators were looking into the cause of the fire.




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