Firefighters Struggle With Arizona's 'Gladiator Fire'
CROWN KING, Ariz. (AP) — An evacuation order for a historic northern Arizona mining town didn't prompt Taryn Denyce to flee earlier this week, when ...
CROWN KING, Ariz. (AP) — An evacuation order for a historic northern Arizona mining town didn't prompt Taryn Denyce to flee earlier this week, when ...
AP | Posted 05.15.2012
CROWN KING, Ariz. (AP) — Firefighters continued to battle a wildfire Monday in northern Arizona that has forced residents from their homes in the hi...
AP | By FELICIA FONSECA | Posted 05.27.2012
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Two cousins charged with accidentally causing the largest wildfire in Arizona history pleaded guilty Tuesday to a pair of misdemea...
AP | Posted 05.16.2012
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Two cousins charged with accidentally causing the largest wildfire in Arizona history have reached plea agreements with pros...
AP | Posted 10.24.2011
PHOENIX (AP) -- Federal charges have been filed against two cousins accused of causing the largest forest fire in Arizona's history. The charges we...
AP | BOB CHRISTIE | Posted 08.23.2011
PHOENIX — The largest wildfire in Arizona history left a charred landscape of blackened forest, burned-out vehicle hulks and charred fireplaces ...
AP | BOB CHRISTIE and JACQUES BILLEAUD | Posted 08.23.2011
PHOENIX — Firefighters nearly have one of three major wildfires in Arizona under control, but mostly because the blaze has already burned throug...
Posted 08.22.2011
By Tim Gaynor PALOMINAS, Ariz -- Two Arizona wildfires that have scorched a quarter-million acres combined and destroyed dozens of homes just n...
Posted 08.21.2011
WASHINGTON – Sen. John McCain says he's "puzzled" that there's a controversy surrounding remarks he made suggesting illegal immigrants were responsi...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 08.20.2011
SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. — It always comes back to illegal immigration in Arizona -– even when the state is on fire. Sen. John McCain on Monday defe...
AP/The Huffington Post | By BOB CHRISTIE | Posted 08.20.2011
PHOENIX (AP) -- Lighter winds should give firefighters in southern Arizona a break Monday after a weekend in which thousands of residents fled their h...
Posted 08.19.2011
John McCain (R-AZ) says undocumented immigrants are to blame for the massive wildfires that have ravaged Arizona. "There is substantial evidence th...
AP | SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and BOB CHRISTIE | Posted 08.16.2011
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Firefighters trying to protect homes, a popular national park and tinder dry patches of forest were tested Thursday as tempe...
AP/The Huffington Post | By BOB CHRISTIE | Posted 08.15.2011
SPRINGERVILLE, Ariz. (AP) -- The fire burning in eastern Arizona's Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest is now the largest in state history, although now...
AP | By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 08.15.2011
WASHINGTON -- The fires searing parts of the West are an eerie echo of the past, a frightening reminder of a once terrible danger that had been held l...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 08.14.2011
LUNA, N.M. (AP) — A massive wildfire in eastern Arizona is burning more acres than the largest in state history, although some of that area is in Ne...
AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF and BOB CHRISTIE | Posted 08.13.2011
LUNA, N.M. — Crews battling a massive wildfire in eastern Arizona for two weeks shifted their focus Monday to New Mexico, where they lit fires t...
AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 08.12.2011
SPRINGERVILLE, Ariz. — Firefighters on Sunday expressed the first real sense of hope that they were making progress in their battle against a hu...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 08.11.2011
SPRINGERVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — An eye-stinging, throat-burning haze of smoke spewing from a gigantic wildfire in eastern Arizona is beginning to stretc...
AP | By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and BOB CHRISTIE | Posted 08.10.2011
SPRINGERVILLE, Ariz. (AP) -- A massive wildfire in eastern Arizona that has claimed more than 30 homes and forced nearly than 10,000 people to evacuat...
AP | By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and BOB CHRISTIE | Posted 08.09.2011
SPRINGERVILLE, Ariz. (AP) -- Fire crews worked through the night to protect several Arizona mountain communities from a growing forest fire that has f...
AP/The Huffington Post | By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and BOB CHRISTIE | Posted 08.08.2011
SPRINGERVILLE, Ariz. (AP) -- A raging forest fire in eastern Arizona has scorched an area larger than the size of Phoenix, threatening thousands of re...
Posted 08.07.2011
No one would characterize the massive Arizona wildfire as good news, but the tragic, ongoing disaster has prompted firefighters from across the countr...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 08.06.2011
GREER, Ariz. -- More than 2,000 firefighters from several states battled a 287-square-mile wildfire in eastern Arizona that forced the evacuation of m...
AP | FELICIA FONSECA | Posted 05.25.2011
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The second wildfire to hit Flagstaff in two days quickly spread Sunday to more than 4 square miles, driving residents from hu...
AP | Posted 05.17.2012