FOTOS: Incendios por la ola de calor en San Diego
Firefighters wait for water as they battle flames at the Alpine Oaks Estates mobile home park on Friday during a fire in Alpine, California.
(Eduardo Contreras / San Diego Union-Tribune)Tres incendios de rápido movimiento estallaron en el condado de San Diego: el incendio West en Alpine cerca de la Interestatal 8 y West Willows Road, el incidente de Vandergrift en Camp Pendleton y el incendio Building cerca de Dulzura.
The intensity of the fire is apparent after it got so hot that metal in cars on this property at the end of Viejas View Place melted and ran down the street. A fast moving brush fire that started near Interstate 8 and East Willows road in Alpine quickly took off to the southwest destroying several mobile homes and houses off of South Grade Road.
(John Gibbins / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Firefighters streamed water onto a burnt house on Pine View Road to prevent embers from spreading to other homes in the area. A fast moving brush fire that started near Interstate 8 and East Willows road in Alpine quickly took off to the southwest destroying several mobile homes and houses off of South Grade Road.
(John Gibbins / San Diego Union-Tribune)
SDPD SGT Linda Griffin puts water from a garden hose on a house that had fire in the upper story and attic before firefighters got there on Scenic View Drive. A fast moving brush fire that started near Interstate 8 and East Willows road in Alpine quickly took off to the southwest destroying several mobile homes and houses off of South Grade Road.
(John Gibbins / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Firefighters battle flames at the Alpine Oaks Estates mobile home park on Friday during a fire in Alpine, California.
(Eduardo Contreras / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Firefighters battle flames at the Alpine Oaks Estates mobile home park on Friday during a fire in Alpine, California.
(Eduardo Contreras / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Fred Begley makes a phone call as his home burns in the background at the corner of Pine View Road and Olive View Road on Friday during a fire in Alpine, California.
(Eduardo Contreras / San Diego Union-Tribune)
A garage on Olive View Road went up in flames but firefighters stopped it from spreading to the house. A fast moving brush fire that started near Interstate 8 and East Willows road in Alpine quickly took off to the southwest destroying several mobile homes and houses off of South Grade Road.
(John Gibbins / San Diego Union-Tribune)
A firefighter streamed water onto a burning house on Viejas View Road to prevent embers from spreading to other homes in the area. A fast moving brush fire that started near Interstate 8 and East Willows road in Alpine quickly took off to the southwest destroying several mobile homes and houses off of South Grade Road.
(John Gibbins / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Firefighters battle flames burning a home at the corner of Viejas View Place and Pine View Road on Friday during a fire in Alpine, California.
(Eduardo Contreras / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Residents watch fire activity standing at the corner of Highlands View Road and Viejas View Place on Friday during a fire in Alpine, California.
(Eduardo Contreras / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Residents water the fence of a home along Viejas View Place on Friday during a fire in Alpine, California.
(Eduardo Contreras / San Diego Union-Tribune)
While other firefighters were inside, another put water into a burning wall at a house on Scenic View Drive in Alpine where a fire had started in the upper story. A fast moving brush fire that started near Interstate 8 and East Willows road in Alpine quickly took off to the southwest destroying several mobile homes and houses off of South Grade Road.
(John Gibbins / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Firefighters battle flames at the Alpine Oaks Estates mobile home park on Friday during a fire in Alpine, California.
(Eduardo Contreras / San Diego Union-Tribune)
A firefighter approaches a burning home along Olive View Road on Friday during a fire in Alpine, California.
(Eduardo Contreras / San Diego Union-Tribune)
A home burns near Olive View Road on Friday during a fire in Alpine, California.
(Eduardo Contreras / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Two people, who declined to give their names, unload horses evacuated from the West fire in Alpine as smoke from a small fire west of them rises in the background at the Lakeside Rodeo in Lakeside on Friday.
(Hayne Palmour IV / San Diego Union-Tribune)
People unload horses evacuated from the West fire in Alpine at the Lakeside Rodeo in Lakeside on Friday.
(Hayne Palmour IV / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Firefighters with the Camp Pendleton Fire Department combat a 125-acre fire in the Santa Margarita/De Luz Housing area on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton July 6.
(Cpl. Dylan Chagnon / Marine Corps Installations West - Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton)
Firefighters with the Camp Pendleton Fire Department combat a 125-acre fire in the Santa Margarita/De Luz Housing area on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton July 6.
(Cpl. Dylan Chagnon / Marine Corps Installations West - Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton)
John McCutchen grew up in East Peoria, Illinois, where he got his start in newspapers at 9 years old as a paperboy for two newspapers.He started photographing for the weekly paper when he was in high school and hasn’t stopped since; covering daily life, political campaigns, fashion, the military, professional sports and his favorite –Friday night high school football.John joined the San Diego Union-Tribune in 1988 and has worked as a photojournalist, picture editor, assignment editor and, currently, as the Director of Photography, he is firmly convinced that covering San Diego is the best job on the planet.
Eduardo Contreras has been a staff photographer at the U-T since 1994. Previously, he worked at the Chicago Tribune and as a freelance photographer in Orange County, California, where he grew up. Contreras has traveled extensively throughout the U.S. on assignment as well as internationally, reporting from Cuba, Canada, and Mexico. Contreras was member of the U-T staff that won the National Press Photographers “Best Use of Photos” honor in 1998. He is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara and has been working as a photojournalist since 1984. He has been married since 1989 and has three children.
John Gibbins is currently assigned to cover breaking news for web, television and newspaper products at U-T San Diego. A veteran photographer with 38 years of experience in San Diego, the last 34 at the Union-Tribune he has focused his career on the news of the region. A fluent Spanish speaker, 10 years of working full time from our Tijuana bureau solidified a life-long interest in the border region. Assignments have included extensive coverage in Central America and Mexico and assignments in other parts of the world, like Afghanistan, Haiti, Pakistan, Ukraine and the Caribbean have given him an appreciation for all cultures that make San Diego the culturally diverse city that we live in and enjoy. Awards have included the 2009 National Headliners first place award for the best news photo in the country for coverage of flooding at the border, dozens of local and regional awards and two-time publication in the National Press Photographers association Pictures of the Year competition. John is a SDSU journalism/Spanish graduate and third generation San Diegan.
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Hayne Palmour IV has been working as a newspaper photographer in San Diego County since 1986. During that time he has covered most of the major news and sports events in San Diego County. In between 2003 and 2005 he went on three separate trips to cover the war in Iraq as an embedded journalist with Camp Pendleton Marines. In 2003 the North County Times published a book of Palmour’s photographs, along with text by reporter Darrin Mortenson, on the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq titled “A Thousand Miles to Baghdad.” Hayne has an associates degree in photography from Chowan College, in North Carolina and a BA in psychology from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. He joined the U-T in 2012. Hayne lives in Encinitas.