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The Oceanside Pier is the longest of its kind on the West Coast and has already been rebuilt five times since it was constructed in 1888. Fire marks Oceanside Pier's latest chapter in a troubled ...
Total length. 1,954 feet (596 m) History. Opening date. 1888. Coordinates. 33°11′30″N 117°23′20″W / 33.191672°N 117.388852°W / 33.191672; -117.388852. The Oceanside Pier, located in Oceanside, in northern San Diego County, California, is the longest wooden pier on the western United States coastline at 1,954 feet (596 m).
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An enormous wildfire has grown by 8 sq miles an hour (20 sq km) as it spreads across parts of northern California. The Park fire, which started on Wednesday in a suspected arson attack, has burned ...
List of California wildfires. Santa Ana winds in California expand fires and spread smoke over hundreds of miles, as in this October 2007 satellite image. The Rim Fire consumed more than 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of forest near Yosemite National Park, in 2013. This is a partial and incomplete list of California wildfires.
6 October 1967. ( 1967-10-06) Pacific Ocean Park was a 28-acre (11-hectare) nautical-themed amusement park built on a pier at Pier Avenue in the Ocean Park section of Santa Monica, California in 1958. Intended to compete with Disneyland, it replaced Ocean Park Pier (1926–1956). After it closed and fell into disrepair, the park and pier ...
Oceanside City Hall and Fire Station. / 33.19806°N 117.37778°W / 33.19806; -117.37778. The Oceanside City Hall and Fire Station, also known as Oceanside Civic Center, at 704 and 714 Third St. in Oceanside, California, was built in 1929. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
Monstrous waves along the California coast took onlookers by surprise Thursday. Waves as high as 20 feet "crashed over seawalls and swept away and injured several people, forced rescues and sent a ...