The Santa Ana winds that stoked a huge wildfire near Malibu were beginning to snap through San Diego County late Tuesday afternoon, in the start of what could be a week or more of off-and-on lashings in a region that’s drier than it’s been in years,

Some are carrying their valuables with them, but this devastating situation has even brought several people down to San Diego. So far as of Thursday night, 13,690 acres burned in the Eaton Fire, displacing hundreds of people on the eastside.