CalFire firefighter Quinn McManus uses a chainsaw as he and a group of fellow firefighters work to make a fire break in an effort to contain a brushfire on a hillside above Camino Del Norte in Rancho Bernardo on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)
Photos: Rancho Bernardo fire
Freelance photographer Hayne Palmour IV captures fire crews containing a brushfire in Rancho Bernardo on Wednesday, January 22, 2025.
Firefighters watch from Corte Raposo as fellow firefighters work to contain a brushfire on a hillside in Rancho Bernardo on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)After evacuating his home, Rafael Gonzalez holds his 5-month-old son Daniel as Boyang Zhao holds his daughter Khloe, 3, after he picked her up from a nearby clubhouse where his daughter and other young children at KinderCare Learning Center were taken because of a brushfire on a hillside next to Camino Del Norte in Rancho Bernardo on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)Firefighters make their down a fire retardant covered hillside as they work to contain a brushfire in Rancho Bernardo on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)A helicopter makes a low while doing water drops as firefighters work to contain a brushfire on a hillside in Rancho Bernardo on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)A helicopter drops water as firefighters work to contain a brushfire on a hillside in Rancho Bernardo on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)Firefighters work to contain a brushfire on a hillside above Camino Del Norte in Rancho Bernardo on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)As a helicopter doing water drops makes a low , firefighters work to contain a brushfire on a hillside above Camino Del Norte as a helicopter makes a low in Rancho Bernardo on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)CalFire firefighter Quinn McManus uses a chainsaw as he and a group of fellow firefighters work to make a fire break in an effort to contain a brushfire on a hillside above Camino Del Norte in Rancho Bernardo on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)CalFire engineer, Nima Valleiy, from CalFire San Diego Crew 1, looks back as he and fellow firefighters work to contain a brushfire on a hillside above Camino Del Norte in Rancho Bernardo on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)Firefighters work to contain a brushfire on a hillside above Camino Del Norte in Rancho Bernardo on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)CalFire firefighter Quinn McManus uses a chainsaw as he and a group of fellow firefighters work to make a fire break in an effort to contain a brushfire on a hillside above Camino Del Norte in Rancho Bernardo on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)Firefighters work to contain a brushfire on a hillside above Camino Del Norte in Rancho Bernardo on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)A cactus plant is partially burned after a brushfire moved up a hillside above Camino Del Norte in Rancho Bernardo on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)A group of firefighters pause for a moment as they work to make a fire break in an effort to contain a brushfire on a hillside above Camino Del Norte in Rancho Bernardo on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)A firefighter helps another put on a pack as they and other fighters prepare to head up a hillside to contain a brushfire in Rancho Bernardo on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)Firefighters work to contain a brushfire on a hillside already covered in fire retardent in Rancho Bernardo on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)
