A brush fire erupted Monday on a hillside along Interstate 8 near Lake Jennings and spread into an adjacent mobile-home park, injuring at least two people and destroying several residences before ground and airborne crews could subdue the flames.

The blaze broke out shortly before 3 p.m. off the 13300 block of Los Coches Road East in the Glenview area, just north of El Cajon, according to Cal Fire.

As ground personnel and crews aboard air tankers and water-dropping helicopters worked to extinguish the fire, authorities cleared people out of an area bounded by I-8 to the south and west, Los Coches Road to the east and Business Route 8 to the north. A temporary shelter for the displaced was in operation at Viejas Casino in nearby Alpine.

As of 5 p.m., firefighters had halted the spread of

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