Some orders to evacuate in fire lifted
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SOME evacuation orders were lifted early yesterday in an area near the fiercest of several wildfires in San Diego County in the US, as crews building containment lines around the blazes hoped cooler temperatures will help them make further progress.
County officials said residents of two neighborhoods of San Marcos were allowed to return home. A flare-up on Thursday in the north San Diego suburb prompted more than 18,000 new evacuation notices as flames raced through tinder-dry brush on hillsides. That fire was 10 percent contained yesterday morning.
Ten fires have destroyed at least eight houses, an 18-unit condominium complex and two businesses since Tuesday. The hardest-hit areas were in San Marcos and Carlsbad, a suburb of 110,000 people that lifted evacuation orders late Thursday.
Firefighters found a badly burned body on Thursday in a transient camp in Carlsbad — the first apparent fatality — and a Camp Pendleton Fire Department firefighter was treated for heat exhaustion.
To the north, crews battled two fires at the Marine Corps’ Camp Pendleton, including one that broke out on Thursday and worsened overnight from 240 hectares to 3,200 hectares, base officials told KGTV. It was 10 percent contained. The second fire, sparked on Wednesday on the eastern outskirts of the Marine base, scorched nearly 26 square kilometers of dry brush. That blaze was 15 percent contained.
This week’s unseasonably early wildfires have driven tens of thousands from their homes and shut down schools and amusement parks, including Legoland, which reopened on Thursday. Flames have caused more than US$20 million in damage.
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