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They know what the winds can do. They forecast them. Fight the fires the winds fan. Prepare for evacuations that, in years past, never came. They thought they knew, until seven days of fury began a week ago. "

Breathing problems and burns aren't the only health effects from this week's wildfires. Doctors say people with anxiety-related symptoms and other mental health issues are starting to show up in local

The vulnerable in San Diego have become more so as wildfires rage across the county. From the elderly to the poor to tens of thousands of immigrants both legal and undocumented. KPBS Reporter Amy Isac

Thousands of people in Valley Center are still under an evacuation order, as the Poomacha fire continues to threaten the North County community. KPBS Reporter Kenny Goldberg checked in with residents

Qualcomm Stadium was a focal point for many fleeing the fires in San Diego County. KPBS reporter Nicole Lozare spent Wednesday morning there.

Among the thousands of wildfire evacuees at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium are about 100 elderly nursing-home residents. Many have spent the past three days in wheelchairs, waiting for a time when it's safe for them to return to the nursing home.

The California National Guard has deployed 200 of its 610 Operation Jumpstart border troops to help at the Del Mar Fairgrounds and Qualcomm Stadium.

Like Hurricane Katrina refugees two years earlier in New Orleans, thousands of people rousted by natural disaster fled to the NFL stadium here, waiting out the calamity and worrying about their homes.

Wildfires blown by fierce desert winds Monday reduced hundreds of Southern California homes to ashes, forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee and laid a hellish, spidery pattern of luminous ora

Pakistani police are questioning three people detained in the southern Punjab province about the attack on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's caravan earlier this week. The men were taking to Karaci for questioning. They are from a region known as a center for militancy.