Firefighters are battling a brush fire in east San Diego County near Sunrise Highway & Penny Pines Trailhead on Wednesday.

Crews stopped the forward rate of spread of the Penny Fire at 9 acres. It burned near Sunrise Highway and the Penny Pines Trailhead.

A brush fire sparked on Mount Laguna Wednesday afternoon. Crews with the Cleveland National Forest were first called to the area along Sunrise Highway near the Penny Pines Trailhead just before 2 p.m.

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Firefighters are responding to a brush fire burning near Mt. Laguna in East County Wednesday afternoon. According to Cal Fire, the fire was reported in the area of Sunrise ...

No structures were threatened as of 2:30 p.m. Wednesday as firefighters attacked the brush fire from the ground and sky, per the Forest Service.

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Firefighters responded to a brush fire burning near Mt. Laguna in East County Wednesday afternoon. According to Cal Fire, the fire — dubbed the Penny Fire — was ...

A view of the Penny Fire from a camera on Mount Laguna. (Photo courtesy of Cal Fire San Diego and Alert California) Firefighters on Wednesday gained the upper hand on a backcountry brush fire ...