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 ...

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.

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 ...

Environmental groups claimed the large development project would be built in a fire hazard area and would harm endangered ...

Las autoridades emitieron órdenes y advertencias de evacuación para las áreas cercanas en la madrugada del viernes, mientras un incendio forestal en el Área Silvestre de Otay crecía a 4,250 acres ...

SAN DIEGO — A wildfire in the hills near the U.S.-Mexico border exploded early Friday morning over thousands of acres, prompting evacuation orders throughout the Otay Wilderness Area and ...