135-Year-Old Oceanside Pier Up in Flames 

A well done to the fire department on keeping the old pier up.

Way to go you guys. I from Oceanside, my dad was a Marine for 26 years. He used to take me and my two brothers there when we were younger. So that pier has sentimental memories for me. God Bless all you involved.

"It may have started in a vacant restaurant, everyone got out safely." ... Then it wasn't vacant??

What a shame the entire U.S. Congress wasn't dining in that restaurant at the time?

I swear everything is going into flames

Walked that for years when I was growing up. My grandfather caught many fish off that pier. So glad they were able to save it.

I used to work in the food industry. I bet anything that the last crew in that kitchen didn't clean the fryer thoroughly that there was still some grease left over. One spark is all it takes to get that oil burning.

I've never been there but I'm glad they took care of it so quickly.

I remember that pier with affection from my early years and time at Camp Pendleton. To lose it would hurt even though I am no longer in the state.

Rubys was a great restaurant to go to especially their strawberry shakes 😢

Squatters.

Well done Firefightos

Insurance job

Oh, no! It’s such a beautiful and iconic pier. Just gorgeous at sunset.

I had dinner there for my 26th birthday 🎂💐 some years ago, it is a truly unique place, oh how I miss San Diego ❤

Hopefully all the soot and tar that melted down over the pier helps it last even longer and only the building structure on top was damaged.

The whole state is up in flames!

I come to oceanside multiple times a year and always take walks on the pier. Thanks to the fire department I can continue to do so.

Bless the hearts of all that helped❤!!!!

We used to live on S.Strand, sad to see this. Glad they got it put out and everyone is safe.

Started in a VACCANT restureaunt..nope.

1969 - USM - , Oceanside was my first time on Liberty. I am pretty sure it was that pier where I got sucked under by a wave.

I just today finished watching the Liam Neeson film Taken2…THAT'S THE PIER AT THE FILM ENDING! They were enjoying chocolate milkshakes him, his daughter & ex at the restaurant! Wow, from all the way here in Nigeria, I was admiring this pier, I go online & its burning??!! Go figure, right?

I remember last night that we saw the fire and took pictures of it I hope no one was hurt😢

Not a total loss. Well done. I’m 50yr okd and used to visit that pier when my husband was stationed in California. Had my first child at Bayne Jones. She’s almost 30. Sigh.

Sad...but it's a representative of the state😮😢...Much Love and Support to the Rescue team and community ❤

Wow the movie Taken part 2 and 3 was filmed there at the ending and the design the Grand Theft Auto five bridge to look just like that😮

good thing they had plenty of water 💦

Someone probably threw ice cubes in the deep fryer for a tiktok

At least they saved it

This is sad.

Cheers to the fire department. Real Heroes, they save more than Lives!

Insurance fire

A. The fireman they interviewed looks like and kinda sounds like will farrel B. Fire on water is crazy lmao

I was there watching it and 4 bums came running out of the restruant before it started in flames!

Heard a claim by a local that some people had broken into the closed restaurant and there's a suspicion of arson.

😢how sad i have eaten there before 😢😢

period

Is this the pier and restaurant that was in the movie Taken or Taken 2 (at the end of the movie)? Curious. ☺️

Well, I'm sure that not too much damage has been done, right ? I mean, whatever needs to be fixed won't change how much older this pier could be, right ?

This summer 🌞🔥🔥will be so beautiful 🤩🫡✊🏽

I was there when I was 10 years old during a vacation. It used to be a Ruby’s though, I remember looking out that window and admiring the water and sunset. I don’t even remember what I ate, I think it was chicken tenders but idk.

So sad. Been there many times

Did the Fire Sprinklers built inside help at all?

those old petroleum soaked pilings, once they get lit, the structure is GONE. We had that happen to our Coast Guard Station!! in Vancouver. Some idiot in a small boat leaving False Creek poured gas over his hot outboard, it caught fire, he jumped, then the boat floated over under the CG pilings, supposedly a station manned 24/7 during broad daylight. The entire old building went UP, and then they got a BRAND NEW ONE for their trouble.. You'd almost think it was planned.

Wasn't that pier at one point a ship dock for cruise ships a long time ago before being turned into what it currently is?

Strange that everything old and recognizable suddentlig burns.

"May have started in a vacant restaurant." Better double check the neighboring structures for damage.

My wife and I got married on the Oceanside Pier. I miss the San Diego County of old.

When my son was about 2 and 3 years old, we’d walk down the pier and eat breakfast at Ruby’s. What a great experience and memory.

It’s crazy something burns to flames 🔥 when it is sitting 10ft above trillions of gallons of water

Isn't that the same place where You & I from One direction was filmed?

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Been on this pier numerous times

Dang it, Carl!

sucks seeing this happen in my city 😓

in the year of the dragon, eternal existence in the physical form is not feasible, unless holy, and blessed. and in that case, you likely wont be able to recognize, or discern, because of all the smoke. 135 years is about the maximum lifespan for the pier. anything more is pushing it, pushing the year of the dragon into an uncomfortable position. its time for the faithful to gather their axes and saws and take some souvenirs.

Ok......who did it?

I hope a fire doesn’t happen in the Huntington Beach pier next.

Too much history going up in flames. Wtf.

Sooo sad!!!

I’ve walked on this many times in California

The insurance won’t pay in California 😂

😢

Vacant Restaurant, all the Squatters got out safely.

Fire damage $500,000. Water damage $10,000.000. Fireman " I think we did good here..."

Wow

Very sad 😔 day on my special pier outside the Marine Corps base.

Sad

135 years standing, with no fires, terrorist attack

So it didn't go "up in flames" after all.

Humanity truly is a failure.:/

O side or no side

Arson !!! 😢

Damn climate change

I went there sm cus I used to live there

Watch it get a new transformation.

😢😢😢

Glad to see the pier's OK. Last time we were there a guy caught a ray and hauled it in and everyone freaked out and backed up. My wife goes, "Jumpin Jesus on a pogo stick, you wimps!" Unhooks it and throws it back in. 🤣

Welp atleast gta 5 has it

NFPA hasn't even been around that long (National Fire Protection Association) so... It stands to reason. 😂

Santa Cruz CA is the actual record holder for the longest wooden pier on the West Coast NOT Oceanside....

I live right right next to this pier & its STILL on fire 20 hrs later! I was shocked after stepping outside to smoke at around 1 am to look up and see a huge rooftop blaze. Even more shocked to wake up & see it still going. Wtf its barely hovering above a whole entire ocean idk alsi SN the pier history is wrong & i dont feel like writing it out but summed up this is the "3rd Generation" of the pier with its last construction in 1987 a century after the original.

looks like where falling down ends

I do this on the daily in GTA

after water drops there is nothing saved there

I see it looks like the rest of California now

the irony

Is this pier the same one from GTA Online?

Insurance fraud

Was anyone squatting in that restaurant?

I'm going to take a guess, it was arson.

Hilarious to be on fire yet surrounded by water

I saw it at school

😮

I hope the pelican wasn't there 😢

Guess no sprinkler system? Hahaha yea

Is this an ai reporter

I’m sick of homeless folk in California destroying everything

Oh hey that’s where I live