A fire in the hills near the U.S.-Mexico border that burned for nearly a week and charred more than 6,600 acres was declared 100% contained Thursday, fire officials said. All remaining evacuation ...
Friday’s sunrise is covered by smoke from the Border 2 fire in the area near Otay Mountain and Lower Otay Lake on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune ...
Roy Carmichael, a 66-year-old who lives at the campground in an RV, said he first spotted an orange glow atop Otay Mountain on Thursday night. “We thought everything was going to be OK,” he said.
The winds exploded out of the east, dropping into Gilman Canyon and onto Otay Mountain and interrupting the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament at Torrey Pines. Santa Ana winds gusted to 91 mph ...
The blaze broke out for unknown reasons at about 2:30 p.m. in a remote spot near Otay Mountain Truck Trail, about a half-mile west of Doghouse Junction in the northwest portion of the Otay ...
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 ...
The Border 2 Fire was reported Thursday afternoon. 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 ...
Over three days, the storm dropped from five to seven inches of rain in parts of the region – and even some thin blankets of ...
The so-called Border 2 Fire broke out on Otay Mountain around 2:30 p.m. Thursday, according to Cal Fire. It sent a large plume of smoke into the sky that could be seen for miles across San Diego ...
Santa Ana winds continued to cause problems early Friday morning. Winds out of the east were gusting nearly 30 mph at Otay Mountain and the relative humidity was 2%. And a storm capable of bringing ...