A rapidly growing brush fire chewed through canyons of thick brush and palm trees in the San Diego College Area and Talmadge neighborhoods Thursday afternoon, damaging homes and prompting widespread evacuations.

The brush fire sparked around 1:30 p.m. on the south side of Montezuma Road — an area filled with old, dry palm trees, according to San Diego Fire-Rescue spokesperson Monica Munoz — and quickly jumped the road and began spreading uphill.

All evacuation orders have been lifted in parts of San Diego after a brush fire erupted near the San Diego State University campus. T/Fairmount Fire had