{"id":211773,"date":"2025-09-09T03:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T03:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/211773\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T03:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T03:15:16","slug":"evacuations-ordered-as-fire-in-lakeside-burns-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/211773\/","title":{"rendered":"Evacuations ordered as fire in Lakeside burns structures"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fast-moving fire injured two people and destroyed at least four homes Monday as it spread through a mobile home park in Lakeside and forced evacuations.<\/p>\n

The fire was first reported south of Interstate 8 near Los Coches Road around 3 p.m., said Cal Fire Capt. Mike Cornette. Crews were able to stop the forward spread of the fire at roughly 5 acres and had it about 5% contained shortly before 4:30 p.m., according to Cal Fire.<\/p>\n

One person sustained burn injuries and one reportedly suffered smoke inhalation, Cornette said. Both were transported to hospitals. No information about their conditions was immediately available.<\/p>\n

Cornette \u2014 who noted that the region is entering peak fire danger \u2014 said the fire started in brush and quickly spread to a neighboring mobile home park,\u00a0 pushed east by breezy winds out of the west.<\/p>\n

\"CrewsA helicopter makes a water drop. (Ana Ramirez \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)<\/p>\n

Lakeside Fire Marshal Jeremy Davis said the fire department got a report of a vegetation fire near East Las Coches Road. It was about an acre when they arrived, and it had spread into the nearby Monterey Mobile Lodge development.<\/p>\n

The spread of embers \u201cdid cause the fire to spread quite quickly going through the mobile home park,\u201d Davis said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a true conflagration, but it spread home by home because of combustion materials, then it spread to the other side where the vegetation is, and then it went back into the wildland.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"CrewsCrews work to put out a fire at Monterey Mobile Lodge. (Ana Ramirez \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)<\/p>\n

Davis said at least four homes were destroyed and others had been damaged, although crews were still working through the site, evaluating the scene. \u201cWe\u2019ll see once we get over there what the true damage is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said most people evacuated, although a few stayed behind and used hoses to douse hot spots in backyards.<\/p>\n

Among them was Bob Haynes, 87, who said he and his wife Pattie Haynes, 80, were inside their home, air-conditioning on, \u201cwhen all of a sudden we heard a pop.\u201d He looked out and saw a fire \u201cup against our house.\u201d And a nearby eucalyptus tree was on fire.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I tried to go out and fight it, but a lot of cops got here quick,\u201d he said. \u201cBut there were no fire trucks.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said a bit of the skirting around his home, where he has lived for 39 years, melted in the fire. He fears there is structural damage beyond the skirting.<\/p>\n

\"CrewsCrews work to put out a fire at Monterey Mobile Lodge Monday in Lakeside. (Ana Ramirez \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)<\/p>\n

Cornette said that because the fire ignited where \u201cthe brush meets the houses\u201d \u2014 where wildland and urban areas intersect \u2014 fighting the blaze was a bit challenging because crews had to fight both vegetation and structure fires at the same time.<\/p>\n

Crews called for additional resources twice, making it what used to be known as a three-alarm fire but now is referred to as a \u201cgreater alarm\u201d blaze, Cornette said.<\/p>\n

At its peak, nearly 200 firefighters from Lakeside, Heartland, San Miguel and other fire departments fought alongside Cal Fire crews.<\/p>\n

Cornette said a \u201clarge aerial response\u201d of tankers and helicopters was sent to drop water and fire retardant on the flames. The initial air attack of two air tankers and three helicopters was expanded to include two additional large air tankers, he said.<\/p>\n

As fire crews worked, sheriff\u2019s deputies worked to evacuate residents from the area where multiple structures had been \u201cengulfed,\u201d said sheriff\u2019s Lt. Nick Backouris.<\/p>\n

\"BlownBlown out windows are shown as a firefighter fixes their gloves as they work to put out a fire at Monterey Mobile Lodge. (Ana Ramirez \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)<\/p>\n

The evacuation order zone stretched north of Los Coches Road, to south of I-8, to east of Los Coches Road to west of Lake Jennings Park Road and Kumeyaay Highway, according to Genasys Protect mapping.<\/p>\n

Evacuation warnings \u2014 which means people should be prepared to leave \u2014 were issued for a larger swath of neighborhoods nearby but later cancelled.<\/p>\n

An evacuation center was established at Viejas Casino at 5000 Willows Road in Alpine, officials said.<\/p>\n

Traffic at Los Coches Road and I-8 was closed due to the fire.<\/p>\n

Originally Published: September 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fast-moving fire injured two people and destroyed at least four homes Monday as it spread through a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":211774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,5295,20161,7293,1370,728,50,3549,3550,7264,7289,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-211773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-east-county","13":"tag-lakeside","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-local-news","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-san-diego","18":"tag-san-diego-county","19":"tag-sandiego","20":"tag-top-stories-sdut","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115172168509296116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}