Firefighters received a call to fight a brush fire that sprung up in Santee near the Sycamore Canyon Landfill.

The blaze started around 4:40 p.m. by Mast Boulevard and Medina Drive, a Heartland Fire dispatcher stated.

The San Diego Fire Rescue-Department’s two helicopters were dispatched to the location to drop water on the area. 

Radio traffic reported that the fire was tamed as of 5 p.m. and contained to one acre. The two helicopters were then issued to leave.

Authorities discovered a dead body, thought to have been a result of a suicide, inside an on fire BMW sedan in a Clairemont shopping mall Thursday after firefighters extinguished the fire, authorities reported. 

Several witnesses informed officials that they spotted the burning car behind the Kohl’s store located at Genesee Avenue and Mount Alifan Drive around 12:10 p.m., a San Diego Fire-Rescue Department dispatcher reported.

Other witnesses report seeing a man behind the wheel of the BMW cruising around the parking lot, then continuing behind the Kohl’s, San Diego police Lt. Jim Filley stated. 

“The next thing they saw was smoke,” Filley added. 

“The sense is, this is probably not death at the hands of another.”

Filley reported that it seemed that an accellerant or incendiary device was used to spark a fire, but the source is still being investigated. 

The dispatcher informed that firefighters extinguished the blaze and then discovered the body inside. Firefighters then contacted the Metro Arson Strike Team and San Diego police. 

The BMW was a light-colored, four-door and was parked in a narrow space between the back wall of the store and a parked semi-trailer.

Three people were injured in a firework mishap at Bradley Park in San Marcos on Sunday, the San Diego Sheriff’s Department reported.

One of the three had to be transported to the hospital for medical aide for severe burns received in the accident. The mishap occurred around 9:20 p.m. during the yearly firework show at the park located on Rancho Santa Fe Road and Linda Vista Drive.

A sheriff’s spokesman reported that fireworks accidentally fired sideways and hit the property of a caretaker in the park.

Four different vegetation fires began around 3:10 p.m. Saturday near state Route 78 and Nordahl Road and are not contained, a NorthComm dispatcher reported.

A part of the freeway was shutdown for the time being by Barham Drive, the dispatcher added. The source of the blaze, is to be determined.

A pickup truck sideswiped a house and continued to hit another one Thursday afternoon in Del Cerro, and the driver was transported to the hospital, authorities reported.

The accident was called in around 12:48 p.m. on Camino Largo by Camino Estrellado. Crews requested that the city building engineer send a person to search the buildings, a San Diego Fire-Rescue Department dispatcher reported.

The accident started a small fire in the attic of one of the homes, which firefighters quickly put out, reported department spokesman Maurice Luque. The house was unoccupied during the fire.

The car finally stopped on top of a gas meter, Luque added.

No other information regarding the driver were given right away.

Firefighters are currently battling a small brush fire that started by Rancho Santa Fe.

The fire was called in around 11:15 a.m. on Artesian Road south of the Crosby National Golf Club, reported a fire dispatcher.

The blaze has consumed about one acre of light grass thus far. Homes are close to the area but do not seem to be in danger at this point. Two helicopters are on their way to assist ground crews.

A brush fire consumed 5-acres by Palo Verde Lake south of Alpine and began spreading up into the Cleveland National Forest early Sunday night, fire officials reported.

The fire was called in around 5:30 p.m. by Via Palo Verde Lago, stated CalFire spokesman Mike Mohler.

The agency is helping the U.S. Forest Service, which has authority over the area.

Authorities are currently looking into the source of a small fire that took place at El Camino High School Saturday morning.

The fire was called in after 7 a.m. and destroyed one classroom. Oceanside firefighters extinguished the blaze.

Further information regarding the case was not given.

A San Diego police car burst into flames in City Heights early Saturday after the officer driving it had pulled over and got out to investigate an incident.

The officer was investigating a domestic violence incident, when another officer saw smoke coming from the car.

The car was parked and set on fire on Chamoune Avenue near Dwight Street.

San Diego police report that the fire department’s Metro Arson Strike Team is looking into the incident and discovering the source of the blaze, which occurred around 6 a.m. Saturday. Foul play is not thought to be the source of the incident.

Firefighters and air-carriers have transported water to put out a blaze in Santee.

No homes were damaged in the fire, but the fire has spread over 260 acres. The fire was first called in before 2:30 p.m., fire officials stated “most forward progress had stopped” on the fire.

The source of the fire is yet to be determined. It was first called in around 11:30 a.m.

The fire stated north of a water treatment plant at Santee Lakes and was spreading towards the border with Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in the city’s northernmost point. Cal Fire spokesman Mike Mohler reported that the homes closest by were about a mile away.