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.

Otay Mountain fire seen from the hills of Tijuana, Mexico in Hacienda Agua Caliente on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025 in Tijuana, Baja California. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune ...

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.

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 ...

A wildfire in the rugged hills near the U.S.-Mexico border exploded to several thousand acres Friday, charring land near Lower Otay Reservoir before east winds yielded to an onshore flow that may ...

igniting Thursday near San Diego, continuing weeks of blazes in Southern California. The Border 2 Fire was discovered around 2:30 p.m. PT in the Otay Mountain Wilderness Area about 30 miles ...

A Cal Fire San Diego truck on a rural road. Courtesy Cal Fire A brush fire near Otay Mountain north of the U.S.- Mexico border was fully contained today, authorities said. The fire was reported ...

Get top local San Diego stories delivered to you every morning with our News Headlines newsletter. The blaze — which erupted just west of Doghouse Junction in the Otay Mountain Wilderness Area ...

SAN DIEGO — Two migrant women were rescued in the Otay Mountain wilderness by U.S. Border Patrol agents from the San Diego sector last week, the federal agency said. Mexican authorities reported ...