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On May 27, 1966, San Diego High’s Doyle Steel set a national prep long jump record with a leap of 25 feet 5 1/4 inches during the San Diego CIF track finals in Balboa Stadium. After 55 years, it’s still a San Diego record, the oldest local high school track record in the books.
From The San Diego Union, Saturday, May 28, 1966:
Steel’s 25-5 1/4 Long Jump Sets U.S. Mark; Danielson 4:06.2
By Bill Center
Doyle Steel, a wiry San Diego High School senior, broke the national long jump record last night at Balboa Stadium with a herculean leap of 25 feet, 5 1/4 inches.
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This was the highlight of a brilliant San Diego Section CIF Championship meet, but in addition, a state record was broken when Chula Vista’s Tim Danielson ran the mile in 4:06.2 and four other San Diego-CIF marks were established.
EAST COUNTY
About 90 firefighters in the air and on the ground stopped the spread of a brush fire at 30 acres off Interstate 8 in East County Wednesday afternoon.
The fire started about 3:30 p.m. along east I-8 west of Los Coches Road and took off up a hillside. The fire spread east at a moderate rate, Cal Fire officials said.
Deputies were sent to issue evacuation warnings to residents on Carob Tree and Lotus lanes off La Cresta Road in the Granite Hills area. W.D. Hall Elementary School in the Winter Gardens area was set up as an evacuation point until the warnings were lifted.
The cause of the fire was under investigation. There was no reported damage to structures. Author: Heather Hope (Reporter), CBS News 8 Team Published: 4:42 PM PDT May 12, 2021 Updated: 5:03 PM PDT May 12, 2021
LAKESIDE, Calif. Firefighters stopped the forward progress on a brush fire Wednesday alongside eastbound Interstate 8, west of Los Coches Road in the Lakeside/Granite Hills area, according to Cal Fire. The Coches Fire scorched 30 acres in unincorporated El Cajon after it started around 3:30 p.m.
The eastward-spreading flames moved up grassy slopes to within a few hundred feet of houses along Carob Tree and Lotus lanes as crews battled the blaze by ground and aboard firefighting aircraft, said Thomas Shoots, a fire captain with the state agency.