Camp Pendleton Building Numbers - The fire forced 7,000 people to leave and more than 6,800 homes lost electricity from San Diego Gas & Electric.

A massive fire broke out at the US Marine base Camp Pendleton in Southern California on Wednesday nightCredit: AP: Associated Press

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Camp Pendleton has approximately 70,000 military and civilian residents in the various communities that are part of the camp.

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The facility covers more than 125,000 acres of land in Southern California and is one of the busiest installations for the US Navy.

The facility provides a wide range of training facilities for many active and reserve Marine, Army and Navy units, as well as national, state and local organizations.

Camp Pendleton caught fire in the evening of December 23 and at 1 a.m. the following day the residents of the base were evacuated by the local authorities.

The big fire was spreading in the base of the US Navy with a size of 195 square miles between San Diego and Los Angeles and burned about 3,000 acres.

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By 3 a.m., authorities and the San Diego Sheriff's Department were forced to extend evacuation orders in much of west Fallbrook, California, just outside the military base.

Southern California Edison (SCE) shut off power to 19,216 of its five million customers and another 155,368 are being considered.

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