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[@gypsytears1785]

Insurance claim… they were due for a new pier.. it was on the news months ago. Way too much of a coincidence

[@jmldreamer]

When the reporter said Vacant restaurant that tells you all you need to know ! Either the homeless started it or maybe an insurance claim !

[@Ominousheat]

Maybe kids playing with matches or lighters. Maybe old wiring. Sunlight lensed onto wood or any chemical materials/containers that may have been left behind can be like bombs. I don't know the weather but lighting is an ignition source. Maybe old split metal clashing together creating sparks that fly onto a dust pile or paint chips. So many causes but let us all think of homeless people whenever we see an abandoned structure and blame them. If every abandoned structure was filled with the homeless don't you think it would show a bit of humanity to show concern for their well-being and question why, if it were true, there should be so many living that way?

[@strangeworldmasterjack143]

Tells you all that YOU need to know about it. Jump to conclusions much?

[@missmindersue]

Exactly 🤨

[@ikingbandz96]

This also happened in 1976 so it’s possible that it’s another insurance claim for federal money

[@Ominousheat]

@@strangeworldmasterjack143 I also mentioned the prejudice this comment makes concerning the homeless but my comment has strangely gone missing. The author is basically comparing the destitute to corrupt business owners. That's autocratic fascism for ya. Especially as corrupt business owners get away with tonnes of crap in the US costing the public billions every year in lost revenue via tax cheats and faux insurance claims. One such battle is happening in NY right now. But apparently, homeless people are top of the list for causing damage. If that is how people think then they will never be help.

[@phillipstephens3079]

Unauthorized Inhabitants ????

[@dixinormeus]

🤦🏻‍♀️😂

[@thisisme3238]

My first thought too 🤔

[@OutWestRedDirt]

Homeless are the fall guy for the crimes of the elite. Majority of people stop thinking and stop asking questions immediately when homeless or unauthorized inhabitants is dropped.

[@wickedweiner4875]

that racisms crazy

[@dixinormeus]

@@wickedweiner4875 you must not live in California 🤣😂

[@bartmadness830]

Highly suspicious 😟

[@MEANASSJAMSTER]

yup!!! - I am having difficulty processing what I am looking at.... I bet they recently upgraded their insurance package.... - why is this piece of our childhood memories on fire?

[@MarioR23]

Nothing to do with that, this vacant place was used for child trafficking, store and distribution to different islands.

[@MEANASSJAMSTER]

@@MarioR23 omfg! ...Seriously? ...now Another pier has gone up in flames..

[@FFLVFD]

Why are they not using Cal Fire Helicopters to dump water

[@t4cbad]

Good ?

[@peacetalkspaz]

One helicopter showed up about 50 mins after it began. They were not prepared for such a situation which is concerning and just too late😢 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@bridgettegallagher2264]

Become they want it to burn down

[@86GT11]

Those helicopters can't dump water over the ocean. It's illegal.

[@beartrap4585]

It’s not vacant.. I did an install of chemical dispensers last summer along with the Brine Box kiosk restaurant next to it .. the kitchen was being used in the old Ruby’s just not open for patrons

[@wumpygaming]

Bro.. I work Lloyd Pest Control and brine box account I do it. Or at least I did… I have a new route I work now but I did brine box a few times. Crazy

[@carolemmett9385]

But it's crazy because it doesn't look like the restaurant is even on fire. Just the pier.

[@emmettturner9452]

@@carolemmett9385That’s an artifact of the pier being wooden, elevated, and having plenty of oxygen below. Most building fires don’t spread underneath like that because they essentially starve themselves of oxygen… but not on a wood pier.

[@retlr_]

@@carolemmett9385later on you could see the flames bursting out of the building from a destroyed roof panel, so it was definitely on fire throughout the inside of the building

[@loridenise5639]

It is so vacant!!

[@SundayCookingRemix]

OCEANSIDE IS IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY. THANK YOU

[@frederick6008]

Says it all.

[@Dane-o7q]

This one was no accident.

[@Dane-o7q]

Under pier set on fire. i live here. ruby's out of business over one year. check who owns this property. insurance job.

[@yourewelcome192]

Insurance claim?

[@thepeterchannel3230]

Half way to San Diego is Irvine . Oceanside is 25 minutes from San Diego. Bums were squatting in the abandoned "Ruby"s" restaurant. . of course. ...They were cooking noodles .

[@JustGoAndFly]

Hahahaha. Bums huh? Imagine that. This is what happens when nobody has anywhere to live because they've been priced out by an invasion of yuppy freaks. If you don't like your cities burning, you have to take care of them, including housing every last mental patient wandering the street.

[@johnisouth6636]

Arson

[@dayviduh]

Anyone else think insurance fraud? I bet a nice restaurant is gonna open up there in a couple years

[@demus89]

Yup all part of the Oceanside gentrification project. Building has been unoccupied for years for a reason.

[@OutWestRedDirt]

And they will blame homeless so no questions are asked.

[@kevinrice7635]

Jewish lighting a real possibility 🎉

[@emmettturner9452]

@@OutWestRedDirtWell, I first became aware when my homeless niece and her boyfriend started uploading their own videos of it to KZbin. They always hang out by the Oceanside beach pier.

[@christineexum]

@@kevinrice7635 WTF?!!! GET SOME HELP.

[@al_chargedup]

My childhood😭 wow im from oside and this hurts so much. The pier is a big source of pride for us. Wow.

[@Mike-hu8yz]

Was

[@jonathonoscars6514]

There was flames on upper floor by the bigger fire boat

[@Threeheadedbeastmode]

When will the homeless understand not to burn down the place they are living in. 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@Goodgrief44]

Maybe they got paid to light the match

[@DanielGarnet-r2c]

U crack me up I’m from Diego

[@iluvbacnotan7977]

Stop blaming the homeless.

[@AnAceism]

a perfect symbol of California

[@Oliviaidk123]

So sad

[@FREEDOM1TRUTH1BOLDNESS]

Curious if any damage to the pier itself can be prevented at all. We shall have to wait and see.

[@Valentinegal]

Looks like insurance claims???

[@amd7574]

Or the homeless or illegals were squatting

[@alopezjr]

Same thing happened to another Ruby’s at the Huntington beach pier a few years back.

[@thisisme3238]

​@@alopezjrInteresting....hmmm 🤔

[@josuegalvan1978]

Same thing happen to the one in Seal Beach CA

[@Jade420_]

@@amd7574stfu get off the internet seek help

[@mikefleck98]

Is such a wonderful place. I hope everyone is safe.

[@kevinblanch]

Wind blowing in right onto the Pier Very sad

[@CalicoEvrywerigo]

Insurance?!

[@DemPilafian]

It's funny how politicians always need to let everyone know they are "closely following" the crisis. How about just stay out of the way and let the professionals handle it.

[@lunayoshi]

Live in Oceanside, can hear a bajillion helicopters overhead.

[@slimslam]

The level of incredibly stupid and opinionated people commenting on this video is astounding.

[@dalecrose3763]

Get San Diego harbor police boats down there they got excellent fire protection

[@wstadlock]

Nope, they cant, still busy writing lifejacket citations

[@SuaveG310]

Blame the Democrats

[@BruceBergman]

LA CIty Fire has several huge fireboats 2:13

[@toddredinger9493]

been defunded and shut down ,get what you voted for

[@keithb6717]

Far from la

[@jabreck1934]

@@toddredinger9493 Are you smoking crack??🤣🤡

[@josuegalvan1978]

Same thing happen to the Ruby's dinner down at Seal Beach Pier. Insurance fraud ?

[@roberthenderson4466]

WHO THE HELL STARTED THIS ? ? ?

[@HeywoodJablowme-ro5ut]

Theres been hundreds of these fires across our country in the last 7 years. Refineries, food processing plants large warehouse distribution forest fires. These are not coincidences.

[@destinymena4930]

Used to live in Oceanside. I love that pier! Hope everyone is safe and no one was hurt on the pier. 🙏❤️ # Oceanside

[@BruceBergman]

An hour from Los Angeles to Oceanside - maybe 2 Hours by fireboats -they Arent that fast but high powered. 5:34 5:45

[@EnlistedBombin]

A forestry helicopter would be faster, and could just dunk and drop on spot.

[@robbnutter4665]

The smoke is going back towards the beach due to afternoon on shore breezes Mr. Newsguy...duh...happens every day.

[@MaliciousMega]

I used to walk here every weekend. The end of the pier was extremely windy, and cold. So it would usually blow back in this direction, towards the shore.

[@kelseybeyer5042]

They have an active restaurant there using their old kitchen called brine box

[@WessyD123]

man, those fire boats aren't helping at all...

[@axidhaus]

They will never rebuild it

[@Themanisred]

I didn't know the restaurant was closed. They have a big fence that goes across the whole pier at the end, there when they're closed. I imagined if they were permanently closed the gate would have been closed.

[@retlr_]

was there last week and thinking about it you’re right, the building was just open and you could enter unimpeded… thought it was strange but now its even stranger 😭

[@carolemmett9385]

How the hell is the pier fire so seemingly uniform.

[@KevinS819]

its called a sea breeze and it usually happens in the day time next to the ocean because the sun is heating up the ground causing the air to heat up and rise and the colder more dense air from the ocean coming in to replace the rising air. that is why most airplane taking off from an airport next to the ocean will usually take off and land toward the ocean.

[@carolemmett9385]

@@KevinS819 thank you!

[@patd4u2]

I was born on camp Pendleton back in 56 and grew up in Oceanside in the early 60s and 70s. I went to Ditmar elementary school in the 60s my friends and I used to hang around the pier and go halfway down it where there was a smoked fish shack that would always give us samples

[@theberrybest]

Another ruby's. Another pier. Rather suspicious.

[@marysnyder5547]

Can you say Zinsurance claim? Look for owner

[@patricianelson8]

Why isn't there a overhead air drop? You got water everywhere, and not one water bucket dump overhead?

[@csmith5876]

Hundred bucks says it’s insurance fraud

[@0505abab]

Mite as well forget about that building those boats won't put that fire out what a joke

[@franklinj1038]

Squatters bbq gone wild

[@shakkjohnson5701]

are they just gonna let it burn down kinda like police chases over there

[@RyanJohnson-pz4tb]

city just spent $5million upgrading the electric and sewer on the pier

[@KimmyGibson]

smoke beyond the front of building....along front of pier?

[@SO-if3yn]

It was Hamas, students are protesting the seafood now, its Kosher.

[@stephaniepiazzese2602]

Vacant??? Vacant restraunt? Catches fire??

[@dustinmiller2775]

Is that the pier from Falling Down?! 😳

[@Goodgrief44]

No

[@Blue2epper]

My grandma lives around there

[@dawn6232]

Is this from a downed pole?? Or a rogue cargo ship??

[@MamaBearAlwaysPrepared]

It's not a ruby's diner anymore :-( sad.... haven't been there in decades.

[@christinespiers-wy9kr]

That is so sad. Sending prayers!🙏

[@jimrylander9143]

This reporter is out to lunch. so wacky & not informed. Terrible reporting.

[@kimleone5496]

Really doesn't matter if it is empty. It's going to be expensive to repair that pier.I remember eating there a long time ago

[@EM-ig7ib]

Fiery but mostly peaceful...

[@troll58730]

I am 86 yo. Have many memories fishing off the pier along with trips to the barge off shore .

[@t4cbad]

Air drops ????

[@MiFatCoyForU]

That's my best fishing spot😢😢😢😢

[@ganbramor]

When is the state going to be held accountable for policies that encourage homeless encampments? How about using part of our $113 billion in tax revenue for free homeless housing and drug rehab?

[@GeneJordan]

When did Gavin Newsom start taking violin lessons?

[@rkw92262]

another mysterious fire?

[@ne7096]

Right? People need to pay attention, these fires were not a regular occurrence before.

[@seanokeefe703]

Usually there are people fishing from the pier

[@peacetalkspaz]

The restaurant has been closed since Covid. Maybe old shorted cables, people smoking, insurance fraud, etc 🤷🏻‍♀️ it could be a plethora of things. I walked the pier this morning. Doesn’t seem they were prepared for such a situation. We had a fire in Carlsbad cove and the fire was put out quickly with little damage. Sad all around regardless 😢 Who cares what “representatives” say. How about ppl who actually live here?! 😢

[@peacetalkspaz]

FYI: Brine Box was a tiny little hut next to the old ruby’s diner restaurant. Look it up.

[@DashRiprock-m3b]

My old fishing haunt!

[@TheFirstManticore]

More steam than smoke, I would think. It's white, and there is a lot of water on the structure by now.

[@frederick6008]

It looks like the pier is on fire?

[@danielcarlson800]

Onshore breeze.

[@ASMR_Lighting]

Tiny water canons to put out the fire? Fire Boats appear underpowered for this blaze.

[@fnln544]

A then-operating Ruby’s at Seal Beach Pier burnt down years ago too; and now this closed one burns.

[@frederick6008]

The underneath part of the pier is what started burning. Crazy

[@Hello-nq1gn]

Suspicious 🤨 hmmm 🧐

[@paulvincent3299]

Smoke has nothing to do with the size of the 'fire'.

[@samuelg3586]

They gonna build "low income" housing on the pier. Packed like sardines

[@tomp8871]

I'm so glad the law makers called in, I can sleep tonight.

[@OpieDogie]

Wow, I used to eat at Ruby’s.

[@fbidenflagguy]

*"Everything woke turns to 💩."* - Donald J. Trump

[@Puppylover4891]

They closed at the beginning of Covid and never reopened

[@Nah481]

Wow, that's terrible. Ruby's restaurant was terrible too but we didn't want to see the Pier burn down

[@LoriL010]

Where do the gas line run to this restaurant? Under the pier or would it have a large propane tank? Or, it's all electric?

[@cwwcww7465]

So who set that on fire????? And what is it distracting from????? Insurance fraud??????????Arson????????

[@sashasavisha146]

The migrants that were living there are going to be pissed!

[@southerncaltattooedbiker3643]

This is a waste when are they going to arrest who ever started this fire ? Being born and raised in California this is sad. I left California in the 1994 but lived in Simi Valley and other places I can say that it's not the California I grew up in I also had both my daughters one in 1978 and the other in 1980 they were born on the same day two years apart and they have never been back.

[@dfelixrx7]

Can’t start a fire without a spark

[@SSB-8]

What, did they have an American flag up that they needed to dispose of?

[@tomp8871]

Nah, just time to leave Cali thanking the Gov on the way out.

[@MarioR23]

This place was burned down due, sorry I can't say it but this vacant restaurant was used as a house to store and move something alive.

[@MaryAnnB-o4v]

Does it matter anymore than What’s left of California???

[@MF99K]

I miss Ruby's. sad to see

[@SundayCookingRemix]

Its going to collapse

[@belladrapeau8234]

well at least they won’t run out of water 😊

[@gilraybaker826]

This is what happens when you're state becomes filled with shuttered buildings.

[@Tammys_kaysee]

What happened???

[@moonshinefuel]

Does this structure even have an adequate functioning fire sprinkler system? my guess is no. They should have tore it down before this happened. Now they are going to have close at least part of this dock.

[@rtaAsh]

Pretty interesting to watch the smoke being blown basically horizontally. What's interesting is the smoke that's coming out from underneath the pier. If the wind is that strong to be blowing the smoke the way it is .why is there smoke coming out from underneath the pier shouldn't it be blowing underneath the pier and being pushed East.and not coming out from the front and the sides like it could have started under the pier and went into the restaurant. Because at 2:42 in the video where is that smoke coming from if the wind is blowing that strong it should not reach the front of the pier. Unless there's active fire under that wood. Now the only other possibility is the fire was started in the middle of the restaurant and burned through and crawled underneath towards the front of the pier but if the wind is that strong it would burn the flames the opposite direction away from the West siding face of the pier

[@MaliciousMega]

The pier is old. The boards have spacing between them, and some spots had holes where the knot of the wood used to be, so it's not a solid slab of foundation or coverage. Since smoke travels, I could see it going between the boards to escape. Maybe it also depends on the piping underneath?

[@afterglow5285]

What is air-defense doing?

[@jbparrothead8532]

Maybe the restaurant was “vacant” but why would the pier be empty.

[@peacetalkspaz]

False news! The pier was NOT empty. I walked it this morning. Why would the news say such a thing?!

[@SoCalUrbex74]

I'm glad I filmed this a couple times to preserve history

[@steveross1260]

Where's the helicopters to dip and drop? It would be out in minutes.