DENVER — Several wildfires raged unchecked across drought-parched Colorado on Thursday, one threatening oil and gas wells close to the Utah border and another about 300 miles to the southeast chased a group of Boy Scouts from their camp near New Mexico.
A separate wind-whipped fire roaring through chaparral and pine forests in central Arizona forced the evacuation of about 460 homes near the town of Prescott, about 100 miles north of Phoenix.Scorching temperatures, low humidity and gusting winds have much of Colorado under red-flag warnings for extreme fire danger, the National Weather Service said in a bulletin.
azcentral.com Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:26 PM By D.S. Woodfill, Erin O’Connor and Cecilia Chan
A Sikorsky Skycrane returns after dropping water on the Doce Fire Wednesday evening, June 19, in the hills northwest of Prescott.
The Doce Fire continued to rage out of control on Thursday near Prescott, consuming about 6,400 acres of brush and timber in Arizona’s first major wildfire of the summer.
No structures were damaged or injuries reported as reinforcements Wednesday bumped the number of firefighters up to 614, more than double the 300 on Tuesday when the fire broke out. That total included 21 hand crews, 27 engines, 11 water tenders, one bulldozer and four helicopters.
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LUEPP, ARIZONA – It’s not something you see every day on the Navajo Nation, but a crack in the earth has been forming for a long time now and no one seems to have a clear answer. It just sits east of Flagstaff on Luepp Rd and about one mile west of Leupp gas station. It’s gotten so big, that they had to fence it in. According to the U.S. geological survey, they say earthquakes come and go in the northern parts of Arizona, which also covers the reservation, it’s not big enough to rattle down buildings but with the recent collapse of highway 89 near Page, some local residences wonder what mother nature has in mind for the vast reservation. On March 18, we reached out to the Navajo Nation land and geology department, they did not have a particular person to give us an answer, so no one was readily available to explain what that huge gash was in the earth. –Navajo Post
PHOENIX - Stormy weather shrouded the state with rain, snow, hail and dust. You know the saying -- March roars in like a lion, and Mother Nature was roaring today. Pretty much every corner of Arizona got hit by this late winter storm.
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