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A sheriff's helicopter pilot spotted debris on a granite-filled mountain known as Lyons Peak, off Lyon Peaks Road in the Jamul area

TECATE, MEXICO — A brush fire in Mexico — near the border with the Mountain Empire area of southeastern San Diego County — sent smoke into the air that was visible from as far away as Lyons Peak near Jamul on Thursday. The fire, which started around noon, was burning southeast of the Baja California city of Tecate, said Cal Fire San Diego Capt. Thomas Shoots. He said Cal Fire crews were monitoring the fire, which was not burning toward the border with the U.S. He added that crews would respond if that changed.

Pete Scully, a battalion chief for the California Department of Forestry's fire protection agency, stands next to his camper-shelled pickup truck at a Highway 94 turnoff east of where Campo Creek turns south into Mexico, about halfway between Campo and Potrero. The hill looming on the south side of the road is completely blackened, the aftermath of a wildfire that roared through this area the day before, Monday, September 13. "We could see the smoke, and we could see it was in Mexico. So I held off on the [large-scale] dispatch." By Ernie Grimm, October 7, 2004 | Read full article Sally Snipe...