SAN DIEGO — San Diego Fire Department made quick work of a brush fire off of northbound Interstate 15, between Friars Road and Aero Drive Mission Valley.
The department says they had both helicopters and firefighters assisting with the fire.
Resident Kevin Butler said his puppy started barking and he looked out the window.
"I saw smoke coming up went and took a look and saw flames coming up the hill," he said.
"It was a little scary. I was waiting to hear if we needed to leave or not. The first responders were pretty quick and took care of it," he added.
No evacuations orders were given but residences near the fire were notified according to a fire personnel speaking to CBS 8 on scene.
"You think we’re out of fire season right now, we are not," said Dan Eddy, Deputy Chief of Operations of San Diego Fire-Rescue. "We just had rains a week ago and this is what turned into in 20 minutes, we went from 100 by 100 to 3/4 of an acre, to an acre now going over the hill."
Twenty minutes after the department tweeted about the fire initially, they sent out another tweet saying the forward rate of spread had been stopped and no injuries had been reported.
A crew from the Metro Arson Strike Team went to the scene to investigate a cause. According to Deputy Chief Eddy, catalytic converters are often what spark fires in that area.