Overview
- A fast-moving brush fire in Los Peñasquitos Canyon grew to about 130 acres after igniting on Sunday and firefighters stopped its forward spread within hours.
- Authorities issued mandatory evacuations and multiple warnings for coded SDC zones and set up temporary shelters at Mandell Weiss Eastgate Park and a University City site.
- Local, county and state crews deployed roughly 160 personnel with engines, brush rigs, bulldozers, helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and C-130 support to prioritize aerial drops and containment lines.
- San Diego police arrested 30-year-old Brandon James Glasgo on an arson charge after a resident reported seeing a man exit a brushy area; he remains jailed on $75,000 bail with arraignment pending.
- No injuries or structural losses were reported and crews continued mop-up and containment work as investigators pursue the arson case and residents begin to return.