Home to plant and animal species, this mountain and its spectacular views face threats from climate change, wildfires, and ...

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 ...

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

In the same month that multiple fires devastated Los Angeles County, the Border 2 Fire sparked and set over 6,000 acres ablaze in San Diego County, prompting more evacuation orders, according to ...

Several people awoke Friday — some in the middle of the night — to evacuation orders throughout the Otay Wilderness Area ... an orange glow atop Otay Mountain on Thursday night.

A new wildfire spread quickly on Thursday in Southern California near the U.S.-Mexico border, The blaze is in the Otay Mountain Wilderness, home to the endangered Quino checkerspot butterfly and ...

The cause of the fire, which erupted early Thursday afternoon amid dry and gusty Santa Ana conditions just west of Doghouse Junction in Otay Mountain Wilderness Area, remains under investigation.

within the Otay Mountain Wilderness, according to Cal Fire. Some of the obstacles in containing the blaze were the dry Santa Ana winds and the steep and rugged terrain and the limited access to ...

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 ...