US Coast Guard crew helps save the Oceanside Pier NBC 7 San Diego [Video]

When Jay Galazin woke up for work on Thursday, he did not expect it to lead him to Oceanside.

“There was no way we anticipated that we were going to be fighting a fire on such an iconic part of the community’s shore,” Galazin said. He is a Master Chief with the U.S. Coast Guard and has served for 27 years.

Galazin told NBC 7 that he and his crew on USCGC Sea Otter were doing routine patrol and were about 15 nautical miles from the pier when they spotted signs of trouble.

“I just saw this massive plume of smoke, and we looked at our camera, and I zoomed in,” Tanner Trew, a USCG Seaman said. “Initially, we thought it was just a building fire.”

Trew added it looked like a “very significant fire.” It only took moments for them to get a call from their command to assist …