Blaze with ‘dangerous rate’ erupts at California’s Otay Mountain

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Blaze with ‘dangerous rate’ erupts at California’s Otay Mountain

Another fire is ablaze in Southern California, igniting Thursday near San Diego, continuing weeks of blazes in Southern California.

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was discovered around 2:30 p.m. PT in the Otay Mountain Wilderness Area about 30 miles southeast of the city and just north of the U.S.-Mexico border.

As of 7:15 p.m. PT, the fire had burned 566 acres and was at 0% containment, according to Cal Fire. The department said the blaze had a

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No evacuations have been ordered due to the Border 2 Fire but Cal Fire said that, “there is a threat to critical communication infrastructure on Otay Mountain Repeater Site.”

Smoke rises as firefighters battle the Border 2 fire next to the ******** border, in the hills east of the Otay Mesa neighborhood of San Diego, California on January 23, 2025.

The Chula Vista Fire Department said that it is monitoring the fire but it did not pose a threat to the city as of just before 3 p.m. PT in a post on X, formerly

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The Border 2 fire is one of two fires that started near San Diego on Thursday as the Gillman Fire forced residents of La Jolla to evacuate for a few hours. The

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, according to CalFire.

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Border 2 Fire map

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