The Padres are sky high after winning their second straight series – and first of the season on the road – as they head into Denver for a big weekend set with the Colorado Rockies.
The Friars have now won five of six, taking the second game of a doubleheader against the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday for the series win.
Now they get the division rival Rockies, who turned heads with an impressive start and sit in second place in the National League West. But they limp into the weekend having lost five of six, including two of three to those same Reds.
Still, they’re always tough at home, winning nine of their last 12 at Coors Field and carrying a 13-5 record on the season at home. They have a major-league best .353 home batting average and have hit 33 home runs in the rarified air at Coors.
That high altitude is music to the ears of a Padres lineup that has scored more than five runs a game over the past week, easily the best stretch for a group that has been offensively challenged for much of the season.
Matchups:
Friday, 5:40 p.m.: Eric Stults (2-3, 5.03 ERA) vs. Jorge De La Rosa (4-3, 4.81)
Stults has struggled most of the season, but got the win in his last start. He hasn’t walked a batter in two straight outings. De La Rosa has won four straight. His last loss came to the Padres in April.
Saturday, 5:10 p.m.: Robbie Erlin (2-4, 4.22) vs. Jordan Lyles (5-0, 2.66)Erlin has been quietly effective, putting up three straight quality starts. Lyles has been even better, allowing two runs or less in his last five outings.
Sunday, 1:10 p.m.: Andrew Cashner (2-5, 2.35) vs. Juan Nicasio (4-2, 3.77)
Can Cashner finally get some run support? The Padres have scored just two runs in his last four starts. Nicasio has allowed just three earned runs in his last three.
What’s at stake: Both teams are jockeying for position behind the division-leading San Francisco Giants, with the Rockies four games back and the Padres three behind them. The bigger worry is if the Giants are going to run away with this thing, as they carry the best record in the National League into a weekend series with the Miami Marlins.
The Pads and Rockies split a four-game set in mid-April. They won’t meet again until the second week in July.
Who to watch: Suddenly, there is a plethora of Padres bats to mention, but it has to start with Seth Smith. The reigning NL Player of the Week just keeps ripping the ball. He flied out in a pinch-hit at bat in the nightcap on Thursday, ending a nine-game hit streak. But that doesn’t take away from the fact that he is 11 for his last 19 with 7 RBIs.
Rene Rivera got the offense going Thursday with a two-run home run. He has all nine of his RBIs in his last six starts.
Yonder Alonso is 9-for-20 in his last six games and hit his first homer in nearly a year on Thursday. Everth Cabrera also hit his first long ball of the season on Thursday and has seven hits in his last six games.
On the flip side, Jedd Gyorko continues to struggle. He has just one hit in his last 17 at bats after swatting a pair of homers and driving in six against Miami a week ago.
For the Rockies, Troy Tulowitzki is absolutely murdering the ball this season. He leads all of baseball by nearly 50 points with a .391 average (Smith is now third at .336), adding a team-high 11 homers and 33 RBIs.
Charlie Blackmon has come back to earth after leading the league in hitting for much of April. He’s still hitting .333 but is just 5 for his last 25.
And don’t sleep on Carlos Gonzalez. While he’s had a slow start to the season and is just 4-for-22 over the last week, it’s just a matter of time before CarGo gets it rolling.
What’s next: The Padres might not want to come home after spending the weekend in the big-hitting ballpark in Denver. But they’ll head back to America’s Finest for a quick two-game set against the Twins starting on Tuesday, followed by four with the Chicago Cubs next weekend. It’s the 30th anniversary of the NLCS win over the Lovable Losers, so feel free to bring that up to any Cubs fans you may see in town next week.
A time-lapse video of the construction of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at ground zero documents the decade-long completion of the project in two and a half minutes.
EarthCam released the video as the museum was dedicated this week. The HD video captures the construction of the museum and the memorial's two reflective pools from groundbreaking to completion.
“It’s been a monumental effort to have these cameras running for over 13 years,” said Lisa Kelly, public outreach director at EarthCam. “We’re just glad we could be part of showcasing the recovery and the construction work.”
The project started just days after 9/11 when EarthCam’s CEO Brian Cury trained a camera on ground zero to capture the recovery effort, Kelly said.
More cameras were later installed at different angles on the roof of the Millennium Hilton hotel to document the construction of the museum, which is built below ground in what was once the World Trade Center basement.
“The location gave us perfect view of the full 16 acres of the job site,” Kelly said.
For 4,617 days, from October 2004 to May 2014, cameras took still shots of the site every five minutes.
It took weeks for several editors and two archivists to sift through more than a million images to assemble the commemorative two-minute, 39-second video.
“This project was important for our company because we’re a local company and some of our employees were affected by 9/11,” Kelly said. "We wanted to contribute to the recovery and we thought it was important to provide documentation of all the effort that was put into rebuilding lower Manhattan."
As San Diego County endured another day of hot, dry conditions and persistent wildfires, a small, new brush fire sparked in Alpine, but was quickly knocked down by crews.
According to Cal Fire’s Nick Schuler, the fire began around noon in an empty field near a backyard and an apartment building near the 1400 block of Marshall Road in the East County community.
Schuler said some structures were threatened by the fire.
Alert residents and some nearby painters quickly noticed the fire and alerted authorities. Residents of the nearby apartment building -- including a firefighter home sick from work -- grabbed fire extinguishers and began tackling the blaze while crews arrived on scene.
Crews were able to quickly contain the fire and stop it from spreading to any nearby homes.
A woman who owns a nearby property said she's grateful to firefighters for arriving quickly and putting out the blaze before it spread. She said she and her husband plan to cut the weeds and brush around her building this weekend to create defensible space.
NBC 7 meteorologist Whitney Southwick said the temperature was 92 degrees in Alpine as of noon, with humidity at 5 percent and winds out of the west northwest gusting from 3 to 9 mph.
Around 250 San Marcos residents stayed overnight in shelters Thursday night mainly mixed between Mission Hills High School and Escondido High School.
This all comes after the San Diego County sheriff’s department sent out 76,000 evacuation calls over the last couple days due to the Cocos Fire.
Nearly half of the evacuees stayed inside the gym at Mission Hills High School along with their pets.
The Dahl family stayed overnight after the mobile home they have lived in for the past 19 years came a little too close to the flames.
“We were sitting her yesterday and all we saw was black smoke,” said Robert Dahl.
Mission Hills High School turned into a home for many people over the past couple days. Dozens of cots fill the school’s gym and volunteers are on hand around the clock providing food and medical care around the clock.
“My daughter is a 6-year-old and she thinks we are camping. The caregivers are great,” said San Marcos resident, Brent Littlefield.
Even family's pets are given the royal treatment. Food, treats and multiple walks a day. Eighty pets are staying at shelters mixed between Mission Hills High and Escondido High.
“Everybody has been wonderful and as far as the dog’s attention; he has gotten more attention the last couple days then he has in years,” said Elaine Gruyer.
With uncertainty of what damage the fire has left behind in their neighborhood, San Marcos residents manage to keep a positive mindset.
“The real bonus I’m gonna take with me is just realizing how good people are fundamentally. Everybody has been helping each other instead of worrying about material things,” said Littlefield.
“The cots aren’t the easiest things to sleep on but it’s manageable. All I can do is pray to go back home to my king size bed,” said Dahl.
An 8-year-old western Pennsylvania girl is recovering after a driver fleeing police sent a parked car careening into her as she rode her scooter, in a horrifying crash caught on surveillance video.
But even as Cassidy Wall recovers, that video still upsets her, she says.
"When I saw the video, every time I thought about it, I started crying," she said. "It hurted my feelings, and I didn’t like what I saw."
"I fell and flew in the air, and I landed on my head," Cassidy told NBC affiliate WICU.
Cassidy and her 5-year-old sister Zmyiah were playing out front of their home near the corner of East 29th and German Streets in Erie, Pennsylvania, on May 9 when a police pursuit zoomed past.
The fleeing vehicle struck a parked car -- flinging it up onto the sidewalk, where the Cassidy was riding her scooter.
"The car crashed… then she (Cassidy) got hit," Zmyiah -- who was heading down the front steps at the time of the crash and was able to avoid being hit -- told WICU. "She flew all the way up in the sky and fell on her head."
Despite the violent impact, Cassidy only suffered a concussion and was back up a few days later.
Police eventually caught up to the men they say were in the car at the time, arresting suspected driver Angello Moore and passenger Brandon Carlson.
Moore, 18, was sent to county jail, unable to post $125,000 bail. He faces 22 counts, including fleeing police, aggravated assault by vehicle, reckless endangerment, drug possession and related charges, according to court documents.
Carlson, 18, faces firearm and marijuana charges. He remains jailed, unable to post $20,000 bail, according to online court records.
Surveillance video released earlier this week shows Cassidy being rammed by the out-of-control car.
"I was terrified... I still [am] terrified," Cassidy's father Delorean Wall told WICU. "As a father, you don't want that to happen to your children. It's crazy."
Construction work, specifically flames sparked at an excavation site, was the cause of San Diego’s Bernardo Fire earlier this week, the San Diego City Metro Arson Strike Team (MAST) confirmed Friday.
The Bernardo Fire started Tuesday off Nighthawk Lane, southwest of Rancho Bernardo. The fast-spreading fire scorched 1,548 acres in San Diego’s North County and forced thousands of evacuations. As of Friday at 7:30 a.m., Cal Fire officials said it was 90 percent contained.
According to investigators, the fire occurred at a construction site that’s in the early stage of development. A survey crew was testing the soil by digging a series of small trenches. Those trenches were dug by a backhoe operator.
After digging and covering one of the trenches, investigators said the crew started moving onto the next excavation location. As they walked away, they noticed smoke and flames stemming from the excavated trench.
The backhoe operator and construction crew attempted to extinguish the flames, to no avail.
Investigators said the blaze spread rapidly throughout the dry brush at the site. The construction crew was forced to flee to safety.
Based on witness statements and evidence, MAST investigators determined the cause of the Bernardo Fire was accidental.
Residents in the path of the fire praised the efforts of firefighters in controlling the Bernardo Fire, which winded its way through canyons and burned just feet from backyards and buildings.
This blaze was the first in a long line of fires that ripped through San Diego County this week, primarily in the North County.
For those San Diegans who wish to donate goods or money to help evacuees or fire crews in the San Diego May Firstorm, here are some organizations accepting donations.
To give to the victims of the fires:
Salvation Army: Sierra Del Mar Division
Donate online: www.sandiego.salvationarmy.org
Or by phone: (866) 455-4357
American Red Cross of San Diego/Imperial County
Donate online: www.redcross.org/sandiego
Or by phone: (858) 309-1200
To give to the firefighters:
San Diego Fire Rescue Foundation
Donate online: http://www.sdfirerescue.org/
Donate by phone: (619) 410-4742
Students showed up wearing neckties and bowties to a private San Francisco Catholic school on Friday in support of a senior girl who wore a tux in her school photo – a photo they believe won’t appear in the yearbook.
The brother of Jessica Urbina, a senior at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, told NBC Bay Area he was informed Thursday by someone at the school that his sister's picture would appear "altered" in the yearbook.
That possibility has sparked not only the ties but also a hashtag campaign, #JessicasTux, by her classmates as they rally to support her.
Their campaign comes as support has coalesced nationwide in recent years for students who have faced discipline for breaking dress codes on campus, and as the nation grapples with changes, and challenges, to gender norms.
"Students should be able to wear a tux regardless if they are male or female," said American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California attorney Elizabeth Gill. "Schools shouldn't make students conform to outdated norms of what boys and girls dress like, not taking into consideration who they are."
The ACLU has not been called in to help with this matter, but the agency has fought - and even won - on behalf of students who attend schools that receive state or federal funding and who have discriminated based on gender stereotyping.
While Jessica has declined interviews, her brother is speaking on her behalf.
“I was notified that SHCP will 'represent' my sister by having an alternative picture listed in the yearbook,” Michael Urbina said on Friday by phone, repeating what he posted on his Facebook page.
Michael Urbina declined to say more until he could meet with administrators, hopefully later on Friday or Monday. Neither he nor his sister has seen a yearbook, since they don't come out until next week.
Please support my sister! Here's a clearer image for everyone to use! http://t.co/Vl6QPypbpj #equity #JessicasTux pic.twitter.com/oNNVAkD2XZ
— Michael Urbina (@michael_urbina) May 16, 2014
The school, for its part, has not given a definitive answer on whether Jessica's image will appear altered in any way.
Principal Gary Cannon said he couldn't say much, citing a student's right to privacy, but indicated that he had previous talks with Jessica about what was allowed in the photo, and what was not.
According to the school policy regarding yearbook photos, girls must wear “drapes,” and boys must wear a shirt, tie and jacket.
Cannon did insist Jessica was in the yearbook, though he wouldn't comment exactly how she would apear. The school's website reads in part: "As we prepare to pass out yearbooks it is always regretful when a student portrait is omitted for any reason. As a community we will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that all students are included in the future."
“Every student, every senior, is in the yearbook,” he said outside the school, which promotes the slogan, “Fearless, we pursue excellence.”
“It has to do with the ‘senior portrait issue’ and the regulations that we have. Those policies are clearly laid out," he added.
He added that all this attention on gender and equality issues might have administrators reconsidering their yearbook dress code.
“That doesn’t mean you don’t reassess your policies,” he said.
While finding out exactly how Jessica will be remembered as she looked in the Class of 2014 isn’t fully known, what is clear is that she has many friends who support her dressing in a way traditionally associated with men -- something they say she does “all the time.”
On Twitter, friends said they wanted to show how their former high school “the errors of its ways,” and that “Jessica roks!!”
Certified $uperwoman tweeted: “Hope every student shows up with a tie on at S.H. cuz it sends a message to Archdiocese that they are the ones teaching hate. #JessicasTux.”
Gameday ready? #JessicasTux pic.twitter.com/VnJWa5GuA0
— JustBae (@Jsaligumbaa) May 16, 2014
The tuxedo issue in San Francisco has similar echoes from coast to coast. In March, the ACLU sued on behalf of gay students in San Bernandino County who had been told they needed to wear "gender-specific" attire for prom and yearbook photos.
That's similar to a case four years ago in which the ACLU sued a high school in Wesson, Mississippi, for excluding Ceara Sturgis’ name and senior portrait from her yearbook because she had worn a tux. In 2011, her family settled with the district, adding her photo - in a tuxedo - to the wall of senior photos and changing its senior photo policy.
And in 2010, Sarah Lloyd was finally allowed to wear a tuxedo in her yearbook photo, after a battle between school board members in Arkansas.
In the Bay Area, friends and strangers alike rallied behind Sasha Fleischman after the teen - who was born a biological boy but identifies with neither sex - was severely burned when somebody set "their" skirt on fire on a bus in November. Supporters paid tribute to Sasha's freedom to express their gender identity by dressing up in skirts and covering the city in rainbows. Sasha prefers to be referred to in the plural.
Tatiana Richardson wants her friend, Jessica, to feel that kind of support.
That's why she helped create the hashtag campaign to get her peers to wear ties to school. She showed up to campus in a bright pink bowtie.
“I know this goes against tradition, but times are a-changing," Richardson said outside school. "It’s not just 'boys and girls' now, there is so much more. They teach at this Catholic school to be who were are, to accept everybody, so that’s what we’re doing.”
Tatiana Richardson, a friend of Jessica Urbina's, who wore a tie to school to support her friend who wore a tux in her yearbook photo. May 16, 2014.
A man has been arrested in San Diego County after officials say he tried to add fuel to a 100-acre fire in an Oceanside riverbed.
Alberto Serrato has been charged with an arson for allegedly adding brush to the fire in the San Luis Rey Riverbed, according to District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis.
If convicted, he could face 7 years in prison. No date and time have been set for his arraignment, Dumanis said.
People living near the location of the fire were told to shelter in place after flames sparked in the riverbed just east of College Boulevard at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Dry brush and heavy vegetation pushed the flames to the north and south sides of the river, growing to 100 acres.
Oceanside officers went door to door and used a PA system to ask residents inside 100 homes to voluntarily evacuate along Andrew Jackson Street, Stallion Drive, Tyler Road and Leon Street.
All those evaucations have since been lifted.
The shift in winds seen as an advantage for firefighters to get an upper hand on the multiple wildfires throughout the county is also contributing to a deterioration in air quality.
"Now, we are experiencing a reversal to an onshore flow. It will do good for humidity levels, and temperatures will cool, which is good for firefighters, but our air quality is suffering. That smoke is now being blown back at us," said NBC7's Meteorologist Jodi Kodesh.
Kodesh added two factors are causing the air quality to deteriorate to a level unhealthy for sensitive individuals, such as those with asthma. One is the reversal in the onshore flow, and the second is a temperature inversion.
"It’s basically a layer up in the atmosphere where the air is warmer, and that layer of warm air acts as a ceiling, or cap, trapping the smoke from rising up and dissipating," she said.
The air quality in San Diego dropped Friday from moderate to unhealthy, according to the Environmental Protection Agency's air quality index.
Kodesh said the air quality is no where near as poor as during the 2003 or 2007, when much more acreage was burned.
Here are recommendations from the American Lung Association for protecting one's health during wildfires.
The stubborn Cocos Fire's rampage through San Marcos and western Escondido burned more than two dozen structures, and now, Cal Fire officials say they're worried about the blaze's push to the south.
What sparked Wednesday as a small brush fire on a hillside behind Cal State in San Marcos has exploded into a 3,018-acre wildfire that has reduced homes to rubble and forced thousands of people to evacuate, fed by strong winds and dangerously low humidity.
San Diego county assessment teams were combing the area Friday, trying to pull together offiical numbers, a task complicated by live power lines on the ground, as fire crews have warned the media. Sheriff Bill Gore has said the fire has burned three homes.
But NBC 7 crews counted at least two dozen buildings burned. Among those were four or five residential homes and more than a dozen buildings burned in the Harmony Grove area, with an additional four homes in Eden Valley and an additional four homes burned in the San Marcos area.
Four homes on Country Club Drive suffered significant damage, as did one on Washingtonia near Jason Lane, one on Phoenix Way, one on Camino de La Cima, one on Coronado Hills and another one at Coronado Hills Drive and Seaforever Drive.
Harmony Grove Spiritualist, a century-old church retreat nestled in the hills a few miles west of Escondido, on the eastern side of the Cocos Fire, also suffered a devastating loss, with about half of its 30 structures destroyed. Fire crews were working mop-up in and around the retreat.
Those structures included a handful of homes, some bungalows, offices and utility buildings. The retreat's Temple of Healing was unscathed, and some two dozen koi survived in a pond on the retreat's 13-acre grounds, located about a 10-minute walk from the nearest road.
Several ranch homes outside the camp's perimeter along South Country Club Drive are also total losses, the members of the association told NBC 7.
Map of Wildfire Activity and Open Shelters
Fire crews fought to save homes in the Coronado Hills and Harmony Grove communities but reported at least three homes destroyed.
Capt. Greg Lloyd of San Diego Fire-Rescue said crews did everything they could to salvage a hillside home on Phoenix Way. The two-story house was torched Thursday evening when flames jumped a fire retardant line.
Lloyd said crews pulled burning debris out of the home in an attempt to control the damage, but in the end, they were heartbroken to watch the home and its contents burn to the ground.
San Diego police say they arrested someone trying to loot an evacuated home west of Escondido on Thursday night and prevented it from being looted.
Officers spotted a car pulling up to the home and determined after questioning that the driver should not be in the area. They did a background check and say the man was wanted on a warrant.
Soon after it sparked Wednesday the Cocos Fire forced the evacuation of Cal State San Marcos campus and dorms, canceled classes at nearby schools and forced Palomar Hospital to shelter in place, cancel elective surgeries and divert incoming patients.
The blaze flared up Thursday and scorched its way through a canyon south of La Moree Road, after prompting evacuations Wednesday from San Marcos south of State Route 78 to western Escondido just west of Interstate 15.
Military helicopters hauled in water drops from Lake San Marcos one after another, in a coordinated effort that drew impressed onlookers.
The DC-10 Super Tanker that had arrived Wednesday to the delight of residents, local officials and firefighters was requested Thursday but down due to pilot availability, Cal Fire said.
Complete List of School Closures | List of Areas Under Evacuation
On Friday, officials lifted evacuations for some residents:
In San Marcos, those living south of SR-78, west of Twin Oaks Valley Road through the San Elijo Community to San Elijo at S. Rancho Santa Fe may return to their homes. The best route will be Rancho Santa Fe Road.
In Escondido, those living west of Valley Parkway, including the community south of Citracado and west of Del Dios Highway, as well as areas north of Via Rancho and west of Felicita Road may return home.
Those closures still in effect include Questhaven south of Elfin Forest through Harmony Grove and the area east of Twin Oaks Valley Road along Barham Drive and south into the Coronado Hills community and the communities of Hidden Hills and Live Oak. Country Club Road from Hill Valley to Harmony Grove Road and Kauana Loa to Harmony Grove.
Harmony Grove will remain closed at County Club Drive.
For those with damaged or destroyed homes, San Diego County will open a Recovery Liaison Office daily 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. starting Saturday, May 17.
Among the things they can help with clearing away debris, cleaning swimming pools and other recovery and rebuilding information.
Some of the Carlsbad families living near Black Rail Road that lost homes on Wednesday to the firestorm were able to go back and sift through the ashes, trying to salvage the pieces of their lives they could find.
Two teens were arrested Thursday evening after police say they started at least two brush fires in San Diego’s Escondido area, as several destructive blazes continued to burn across the county.
Escondido police will continue investigating the incident.
Crews battled intense brush fires around San Diego for a fourth day Friday, as officials warned that the state's severe drought could lead to more outbreaks like the torrent of blazes that have ripped through parts of the county this week.
The rash of fires, which peaked at nine separate blazes at once earlier in the week, marked an unusually early and aggressive start to California’s summer wildfire season. The flames charred more than 10,000 acres, destroyed at least eight homes and forced tens of thousands to flee their neighborhoods.
While officials have not yet identified causes for the San Diego blazes, months of drought have led to extreme dry conditions that leave "nothing but kindling for these fires," as one local official said this week.
“We have not left our fire stations,” Porter said. “Didn't close any of them in Southern California... We cannot fight these fires alone.”
As San Diego enters a fourth day of devastating fires burning in the county, officials are offering updates on the blazes still threatening homes.
Crews continued to battle multiple fires Friday, days after the outbreak of flames peaked at nine separate fires. In all, more than 10,00 acres have been scorched. The bulk of those blazes burned in the North County.
Weather appears to be helping those on the ground fighting the fires with a shift in winds and a drop in temperatures.
"The Santa Ana is dying a quick death as the onshore flow kicks-in bringing us cooler, more moist air from off the ocean," said NBC 7's Whitney Southwick. "The bad news is it will take another couple days to fully make the switch."
Click Here for Map of Wildfire Activity and Open Shelters
Cocos Fire in San Marcos:
Poinsettia Fire in Carlsbad (renamed "San Diego Complex" Fire):
Tomahawk Fire near Camp Pendleton:
Las Pulgas Fire on Camp Pendleton:
Highway Fire in Bonsall, Fallbrook area:
River Fire in Oceanside:
Bernardo Fire:
Meanwhile:
Escondido High School, 1435 N. Broadway in Escondido: 102 people
Mission Hills High School, 1 Mission Hills Court in San Marcos;115 people
Calavera Hills Community Center, 2997 Glasgow Drive in Carlsbad: 15 people
La Costa Canyon High School, 1 Maverick Way in Carlsbad: 10 people
Palomar College closed, commencement ceremony postponed for Monday May 19, 5 p.m.
CSUSM Commencement Ceremonies have been rescheduled to Sat., May 24 & Sun., May 25.
All San Diego Superior Courthouses are open
UC San Diego classes will continue as scheduled.
UC San Diego Health System hospitals and clinics also remain open
Palomar Medical Center – 2185 Citracado Parkway, Escondido
All hospital and emergency services are fully operational. The emergency room and trauma service is OPEN and OFF bypass; accepting patients as normal. All elective surgeries have been cancelled for today. Inpatient surgeries will continue as scheduled, or as needed.
Palomar Health Downtown Campus – 555 East Valley Parkway, Escondido
All hospital and stand-by emergency services are fully operational. All elective surgeries have been cancelled for today. Inpatient surgeries will continue as scheduled, or as needed.
Pomerado Hospital – 15615 Pomerado Road, Poway
All hospital and emergency services are fully operational.
Expresscare Health Clinic San Elijo Hills – 1571 San Elijo Road South, San Marcos
This location will be closed today. All other expresscare health clinic locations are fully operational (Rancho Penasquitos, Escondido, Temecula).
Palomar Health at San Marcos – 120 Craven Road, San Marcos
This location will be closed today. Palomar Health services in this facility include rehabilitation, wound care, diabetes health and corporate health.
Residents should NOT seek shelter at area hospitals unless immediate medical attention is needed.
Residents who evacuated with large animals can take them to Cloverdale Ranch, 2460 Cloverdale Road, in Escondido. Warner Ranch in Pala and Oceanside Ivy Ranch have closed after receiving no animals.
Resources are available to all residents who may need recovery information through the County’s recovery website at sdcountyrecovery.com.
Residents in need of information can call 211
Refresh this page for updates. NBC 7 News crews are working continuously to bring you updated information as soon as we get it.
Special Section: San Diego's May Firestorm
Military personnel are now battling three separate fires that have scorched thousands of acres on and near Camp Pendleton north of San Diego.
The newest fire near Camp Pendleton forced more evacuations Friday.
This fire – dubbed the “Talega Fire” – started around 11:25 a.m. off Interstate 5 at Basilone Road. At a press 1:30 p.m. media briefing, a Cal Fire official said the blaze had burned nearly 30 acres.
Camp Pendleton officials said the Talega Fire is 0 percent contained as of 3:15 p.m.
All personnel in the 62 Area, San Onofre Housing Area and School of Infantry West (SOI-W) have been ordered to evacuate.
Residents at SOI-W need to evacuate via Basilone Road West, I-5 south and report to Edison Range, per base orders. Those in the San Onofre Housing Areas should evacuate via I-5 South and report to the Del Mar area gym and utilize the Del Mar housing gate for access. All 62 Area evacuees need to head to the Paige Fieldhouse via Christiantos Road West, I-5 South and Highway 76.
The San Onofre Housing Area is located on Chaisson Driv,e on the northern edge of the base. It is north of the San Onofre Generating Station, located on the opposite side of I-5 from the shuttered power plant.
The two other fires burning on and near the base are the Las Pulgas fire and Tomahawk Fire.
The Las Pulgas Fire, first reported at 3:15 p.m. Thursday near northbound I-5 and Las Pulgas Road, had grown to 8,000 acres by Friday morning. Military officials put the fire at 5 percent containment.
Evacuation orders for Camp Las Pulgas, Camp Margarita, Camp Las Flores and 32 Area remain in effect. More than 300 people were evacuated north to the School of Infantry, officials said. An additional 62 people were moved south to Camp Del Mar.
The cause of the Las Pulgas Fire is under investigation.
That fire now dwarfs the earlier Tomahawk Fire. More than 6,500 acres have burned in the fire that started at Naval Weapons Station Fallbrook at 9:45 a.m. Wednesday. The Tomahawk Fire spread to Camp Pendleton and the City of Fallbrook. Officials put it at 15 percent containment as of Friday at 3:20 p.m.
Closures:
One Camp Pendleton Fire Department firefighter suffered heat exhaustion and was treated.
The cause of the fires are under investigation.
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A New York City cab driver has been suspended, accused of wearing a swastika armband while on duty.
The 27-year-old driver from the Bronx was suspended by the Taxi and Limousine Commission on May 9 after the agency investigated a customer's complaint. He will not be allowed to drive a taxi for 30 days.
As part of its investigation, the agency obtained photos that they say showed him wearing the swastika armband on his left arm while driving in Manhattan.
A TLC official said the driver violated a "proper conduct" rule which states that drivers must not "act against the best interests of the public."
In a statement Friday, the Anti-Defamation League applauded the TLC's "swift investigation and successful prosecution of this outageous and inflammatory gesture by a taxicab driver."
"By openly displaying this hate symbol identified with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party while operating a New York City taxicab, the driver sent a frightening and offensive message to New Yorkers about who might be welcome – and unwelcome – in the taxicab he was driving," the statement continued.
The driver has been operating a New York City taxi since November 2011, according to the TLC.
Here is the list of areas that have been told to evacuate due to brush fires as of 6 p.m. Friday, May 16.
Click Here for Evacuation Map as of 6 p.m. Friday
In the Escondido Fire:
Remaining closed are the communities of Hidden Hills and Live Oak. Country Club Road from hill Valley to Harmony Grove Road and kauana Loa to Harmony Grove.
Evacuation Centers for Escondido:
Mission Hills High School - 1 Mission Hills Court
Escondido High School
In the San Marcos/Cocos Fire:
Remaining closed is Questhaven south of Elfin Forest through Harmony Grove and the area east of Twin Oaks Valley Road along Barham Drive and south into the Coronado Hills community.
Evacuation Centers for San Marcos:
Mission Hills High School - 1 Mission Hills Court
Escondido High School
San Marcos Middle School
In the Tomahawk, Talega and Pulgas Fires near Camp Pendleton:
Mandatory:
Camp Las Pulgas personnel have been ordered to evacuate to the School of Infantry Parade deck behind the mess hall, building 520430
Camp Margarita personnel should move south to the I MEF parade deck behind Devil Doc Hall, building 210825
43 area of Camp Pendleton being evacuated; residents evacuated to School of Infantry-West gym
DeLuz Child Development Center
In the Lakeside Fire: Evacuations lifted
In the Highway Fire, Fallbrook-Bonsall area: Evacuations lifted
In the Poinsettia Fire/San Diego Complex in Carlsbad: Evacuations lifted
In the Scripps Ranch Fire: Evacuations lifted
In the Oceanside Fire: Evacuations lifted
After being evacuated from their San Marcos homes due to the raging, destructive Cocos Fire, many evacuees are experiencing frustration.
Several residents in the Cal-State University San Marcos area were turned away at a neighborhood barricade early Friday morning, prohibited from returning home despite blue skies above and no flames in sight.
Without emergent purpose, deputies from the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department were not letting people in. Some 100 people were turned away at a State Route 78 and Twin Oaks Road barricade Friday morning.
Most dispersed after being turned away, but Ellen Pterudis and her son, Sean Cuadra, stuck around hoping the evacuation order would soon be formally lifted. They waited in a shopping center, hopeful for good news.
They're affectionately calling it “camping.” They stay in the shade and sleep in their cars.
While they appreciate all the hard work of law enforcement and emergency personnel, they can't help feeling frustrated. They want to go home.
“We all work. We have to get back home, prepare for work,” said Pterudis.
SDG&E crews were in the area replacing utility poles and wires lost in the fire. Meanwhile, firefighters prowled the area for hot spots.
Some residents were permitted inside the area with proper identification.
Dr. Imam needed to get his children's medicine.
“Deputies are helping people. They’re keeping everything safe and secure,” said Imam.
San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore responded to complaints by asking evacuees for their patience, telling the media on Friday that officials are working through the list of safety protocols fast as they can.
For more information and updates on evacuation orders, evacuees can call 211.
