SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Hundreds of people attended a public meeting Thursday evening to discuss the Fairmount fire that broke out on Halloween night.

The meeting was hosted and organized by the Alvarado Estates Fire Safe Council and Kensington Fire Safe to discuss what worked and what still needs improvement in the event of another emergency.

At the meeting, it was learned that a house had been destroyed in the fire. The department shared photos of the damage. The structure is still standing, but the house is uninhabitable.

Firefighters urged people to create defensible space and have a plan in place in case of another fire.

After the presentation, the audience asked questions about evacuation zones, traffic control and traffic congestion entering and exiting neighborhoods, many of which have only one entrance and one exit.

Some also raised concerns about the time it took for parents to find their children evacuated from Hardy Elementary School and overgrown brush and encampments in the area.

Officials said keeping children safe was a priority, explaining that traffic resources also needed to be diverted to reports of a shooting at SDSU.

The ministry also explained that much of the brush engulfed by the flames was on private property.

Regarding the encampments, police asked people to continue to report any problems on the Get It Done app.

Firefighters say the causes of the fire are still under investigation, admitting things could have been much worse. At the meeting, a deputy fire chief said he expected 15 to 20 homes to be lost as soon as he arrived on scene.

The deputy chief says the minimal wind and quick response prevented that from happening.