Flames were 50 feet up top that ridge which is about 100 feet away. Very scary,” said Bob Ilko, President Of The Scripps Ranch Civic Association.

Former San Diego Fire Chief Jeff Bowman, who was in charge back during the Cedar Fire of 2003, said San Diegans need to ...

Even as four wildfires continued to burn in Los Angeles County Wednesday, the blazes were already rewriting the record books.

Rattlesnake fire, 1953: The fire in Glenn County, in Northern California, killed 15 people. Cedar fire, 2003: The fire in San Diego killed 15. North Complex fire, 2020: The fire burned in the ...

Residents said the proposed Harmony Grove Village South development is a death trap and will worsen the fire danger in their ...

Residents in Scripps Ranch are raising a “red flag” over fire risks in their community, pointing to the recent wildfires in Los Angeles as a wake-up call. Their concern centers on ...

Both Pascua and Kremensky said the fires reminded them of previous ones in San Diego — particularly the Cedar Fire in 2003 which burned more than 270,000 acres, and the Witch Creek Fire in 2007 ...

“We don’t want to go through what we did during the Cedar Fire.” Ilko and other residents are particularly concerned about a four-mile stretch from Interstate 15 east along Pomerado ...

The Cedar fire of October 2003 previously held the record as the most deadly and destructive wildfire in the region, destroying nearly 2,820 structures and killing 15 people in San Diego County.