SAN DIEGO — Authorities issued evacuation orders and warnings to nearby areas early Friday morning as a wildfire in the Otay Wilderness Area exploded to 4,250 acres in rugged terrain overnight.

Cal Fire first posted about the blaze mid-afternoon Thursday, saying on social media that some brush had ignited along the Otay Mountain Truck Trail. Soon after, the San Diego County Air Pollution ...

The Border 2 fire on Otay Mountain had scorched hundreds of acres by Thursday night, hours after the far smaller Gilman fire in La Jolla near UC San Diego briefly forced evacuations.

The initial burn area is sparsely populated and the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office issued an evacuation order for residents in Dulzura at Otay Mountain, with warnings to areas just south of ...

The causes of about 45% of fires handled by Cal Fire in County from 2019 through 2023 are either ‘undetermined’ or classified as ‘other.’ ...

It’s burning in the Otay Mountain Wilderness area. A red flag warning remains in effect until 10 a.m. Friday for parts of Southern California, including for San Diego County mountains and inland ...

A large vegetation fire continued burning just north of the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego County on Friday night. The so-called Border 2 Fire broke out on Otay Mountain around 2:30 p.m. Thursday ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Cal Fire crews are battling a brush fire that erupted on Otay Mountain Thursday afternoon, with evacuation orders and warnings in place for surrounding areas.

Over three days, the storm dropped from five to seven inches of rain in parts of the region – and even some thin blankets of ...

Despite several days of rain that aided firefighting efforts, thousands of fire crews were still working to fully contain a more than 6,000-acre brush fire in south San Diego Tuesday. The Border 2 ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - An evacuation order remains in effect Wednesday for Otay Mountain-area neighborhoods, as crews work to contain the smoldering remnants of a wildfire that has scorched about 10 ...