San Diego fire pits will soon turn into ash. Last year when San Diego was facing a budget shortfall of $47 million, the city decided to cut funding to the fire pits program. An anonymous donator stepped up and donated enough to keep the fire pits running another year and a half. Now that the city is facing a staggering $179 million budget shortfall, the same fire pits set for destruction last year are once again on the chopping block, but it’s not like there was no effort to save them. Read more about Fire Pits Snuffed Out