Every year the Price Charities Corporation located at 4305 University Avenue San Diego, California runs a Hi-Rise drill for their employees as well as testing security measures as if there was a real incident.

On Monday December 8th of 2008 a military jet crashed into a very populated area of University City in San Diego, California. There were 2 people on the ground as the crash occurred and two more in a nearby home. As to the San Diego Fire Department there were four confirmed fatalities in both homes. This deadly aircraft crash has caused major delays traffic and in one nearby High School where students were on lockdown for a short period of time while military and local officials figured out what exactly caused the crash in the University Town Center area.

On Thursday December 4th of 2008 a call came into the San Miguel Consolidated Fire Protection District of a structure fire located at 1670 Grove Road @ Chase Avenue on the border between Spring Valley and El Cajon.

November 18th Tuesday 2008 On November 18th Tuesday of 2008 a 3 alarm fire broke out in an unincorporated community of El Cajon . With fifteen engine companies and sixty firefighters the fire was controlled around 5:45 pm on Tuesday evening.

November 18th Tuesday of 2008 On November 18th Tuesday of 2008 a 911 call came into the El Cajon Police Department of four male young adults in the Vons parking lot located at Chase Avenue & Avocado Boulevard with guns firing at each other. As El Cajon police officers arrived they immediately drew there guns on the four male suspects. As officers later discovered the four male adults were lighting off firecrackers in the parking lot and running around as if they had weapons.