Fire crews work to extinguish remaining hot spots just off Ranchos Ladera Road in Bonsall on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)
Photos: San Diego fires
Photographers Nelvin C. Cepeda, Alejandro Tamayo, Meg McLaughlin and Hayne Palmour IV capture the fires across San Diego on Tuesday, January, 21, 2025.
Fire crews work to extinguish remaining hot spots just off Old Highway 395 in Bonsall on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)A hand tool crew prepares to work to extinguish remaining hot spots. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)A hand tool crew works to extinguish remaining hot spots just off Old Highway 395 in Bonsall. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)A fire crews makes their way back to their truck along Mountain View Road. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)Fire crews work to extinguish remaining hot spots just off Ranchos Ladera Road in Bonsall on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)A hand tool crew works to extinguish remaining hot spots just off Old Highway 395. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)Fire crews work to extinguish remaining hot spots just off Ranchos Ladera Road. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)Fire crews were fortunate to have a large water supply nearby to refill their fire trucks during the fire on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Bonsall, near Old Highway 395. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)Rod Mitchell, 72, of Bonsall, is among the residents who were ordered to evacuate early Tuesday morning during a brush fire. Mitchell remained nearby in his truck at noon on the corner of W Lilac Road and Od 395 Highway since he was evacuated just after 2 am. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)Red Cross volunteers, Nat Giraud, left, and Dan Willan look over water and food supplies at the Red Cross evacuation center they helped set up for Lilac Fire evacuees at the Castle Creek Country Club in Escondido on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)American Red Cross volunteer Dan Willan loads blankets into a van as he and another volunteer prepare to move evacuation center supplies from where they originally set up for Lilac Fire evacuees at the Castle Creek Country Club in Escondido to an another American Red Cross evacuation center at the Riverview Church in Bonsall on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)Lilac Fire evacuees Israel Valenzuela and his wife Alyssa Valenzuela watch their dog Moose play with a stick as they wait for word that the road block to their Bonsall home has been lifted while at an American Red Cross evacuation center set up at the Riverview Church in Bonsall on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. Israel Valenzuela, a Navy sailor, said he was getting ready to go to work at the Navy base in San Diego around 5 am when a neighbor informed him about a brushfire. He and his wife Alyssa quickly packed up some belongings, their dog, and went to an evacuation center. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)Lilac Fire evacuee Alyssa Valenzuela looks a CalFire app as she and her husband Israel Valenzuela wait for word that the road block to their Bonsall home has been lifted while at an American Red Cross evacuation center set up at the Riverview Church in Bonsall on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)Lilac Fire evacuee Alyssa Valenzuela, holds Moose, as she and her husband Israel Valenzuela wait for word that the road block to their Bonsall home has been lifted. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)Fire trucks on Churchyard St. in Valencia Park on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025 in San Diego, California. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune)Neighbors looking at the smoke nearby. Firefighters combat a fire on Churchyard St. in Valencia Park on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025 in San Diego, California. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune)Firefighters combat a fire on Churchyard St. in Valencia Park. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune)Firefighters combat a fire on Churchyard St. in Valencia Park. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune)A San Diego Sheriff’s helicopter lands on Friars Road near where a fire had broken out on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025 in San Diego, CA. (Meg McLaughlin / The San Diego Union-Tribune)Firefighters work to contain a fire close to apartments on Friars Road. (Meg McLaughlin / The San Diego Union-Tribune)Firefighters work to contain a fire close to apartments. (Meg McLaughlin / The San Diego Union-Tribune)A San Diego Sheriff’s helicopter takes off on Friars Road near where a fire had broken out. (Meg McLaughlin / The San Diego Union-Tribune)Firefighters work to contain a fire close to structures on Friars Road on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025 in San Diego, CA. (Meg McLaughlin / The San Diego Union-Tribune)
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