Fire put out quickly near freeway

-- Lolita Harper

A small fire erupted briefly Wednesday night on a San Diego Freeway

construction site at Fairview Road, fire officials said.

Costa Mesa firefighters were called to the construction site at 9:20

p.m. to extinguish a smoldering pile of timbers, department spokeswoman

Barbara Marcosa said.

Marcosa said a worker was welding and accidentally ignited a pile of

scrap wood that had been removed from support beams.

Four Costa Mesa firefighters responded and headed back to the station

after 10 minutes, she said.

“It was a pretty minor fire,” Marcosa said.

The fire caused no property damage and will not slow construction

plans, officials said.