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.

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 ...

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 ...

An evacuation order is in effect Tuesday for Otay Mountain-area neighborhoods as ... remote terrain in the far southern reaches of the San Diego area over the last five days.

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 ...

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 ...

saying on social media it was a vegetation fire on Otay Mountain Truck Trail within the Otay Wilderness Area. Not long after the fire started, smoke prompted the San Diego County Air Pollution Control ...