Rodeo - Chediski Fire
June 25, 2002
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Backfires set by firefighters ahead of the
"Rodeo-Chediski" fire are designed to stop its advance
by robbing it of the dry tinder that has fueled it.
Dave Cruz/The Arizona Republic
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Tuesday, June 25, 2002, 7:30 pm:
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The fire continues to move towards
Forest Lakes
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It is currently 4 miles
south of the development - 2 miles south of
the O.W. Ranch, which is south of the Fish Hatchery
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The main threat is the fire advancing up Canyon Creek
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The fire fighters continue
to clear the brush south of the development so that they can set the back fires
Tuesday, June 25, 2002,
10:30
am:
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The fire is moving towards Forest
Lakes
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The Hot Shots and fire fighters are
still working on the fire break and setting the back fires south of
Forest Lakes
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Elizabeth "Liz" Archuleta -
Coconino County District 2 Supervisor and Chairman of the Board
visited Forest Lakes on Sunday, June 24 along with Matt Ryan -
District Three Supervisor, to assess the fire danger. They
have offered a phone number to folks who need assistance due to the
fire. The number is 928-779-6764
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Lynda Locke, assistant to Supervisor
Matt Ryan, has offered to help house folks who have been evacuated.
She can be reached at 928-779-6764
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The "Rodeo-Chediski" fire draws to within a quarter-mile of Show Low as President Bush arrives to buck up firefighters and evacuees.
Bush stops to sign autographs, posed for pictures and even signed a firefighter's yellow jersey. "Thank you," Bush told firefighters as he shook hand after hand.
For the first time since the fire began, firefighters have smiles from ear to ear.
Bush tells 66-year-old Garth Greer, a Show Low resident, "Hang in there, we are going to whip this thing."
The fire muscles up to 375,000 acres, the size of Los Angeles, growing in several directions and making a run north toward Taylor.
But fire officials worry most about its eastern edge, dangerously close to Show Low, and its southeastern portion, where it threatens to jump U.S. 60 and open another front. In such a scenario, flames could run north toward Show Low and the Pinetop-Lakeside area.
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Firefighter Steve Brown of Phoenix sets backfires on
the western edge of the "Rodeo-Chediski" fire late
Tuesday afternoon.
Dave Cruz/The Arizona Republic
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An air tanker drops slurry into the "Rodeo-Chediski"
fire near Heber Tuesday afternoon.
Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press
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The wildfire burns near Heber Tuesday afternoon. The blaze has blackened 586 square miles, an area the
size of Los Angeles.
Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press
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