Residents stay put

In the San Miguel Ranch neighborhood in Chula Vista, residents stood on a ridge and watched a line of fire about 200 yards from their home. A voluntary evacuation order was issued last night, but no mandatory order has been issued.

Resident Rolando Jarin said he was staying until a mandatory order came.

“We’re trying to wait it out until they tell us to leave,” he said.

He said he’d been up all night. He took his two youngest children, ages 10 and 14, to relatives, but he, his wife and his 16-year-old son remained at their house.

“This is awful,” he said. "We didn’t know it was going to expand this far and this fast.”

--Anne Krueger