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PostPosted: 7/22/2005, 10:57 am    Post subject: Wildfire jumps highway, forcing evacuation in Sunflower Reply to topic Reply with quote
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Wildfire jumps highway, forcing evacuation in Sunflower

Associated Press
Jul. 22, 2005 10:23 AM

PUNKIN CENTER - A wildfire that has charred 38,000 acres in central Arizona jumped a highway Friday where firefighters were hoping to contain it, forcing the evacuation of a handful of homes in the tiny rural community of Sunflower.

The evacuations in Sunflower, which has about 15 homes, were in addition to others requested in more populated areas Thursday because of the same fire.

"No structures have been lost to this point," said Jim Whittington, a spokesman for the crews fighting the fire. "We're going to have our hands full."

Sunflower is about 40 miles northeast of Phoenix.

About 150 homes were evacuated previously after the blaze came within 2 miles of Punkin Center, firefighters said. Firefighters built lines with bulldozers and by hand Thursday to protect the city and the area of the Tonto National Forest.

Arizona firefighters also battled a 10,450-acre fire 15 miles northeast of Wickenburg in the Bradshaw Mountains. That blaze was 5 percent contained, said George Taylor, a spokesman for the team fighting the fire.

Residents of a remote town in southwestern Utah voluntarily evacuated their homes Thursday ahead of a wildfire that blackened more than 800 acres.

The blaze threatened 20 structures near Motoqua, an unincorporated town about 20 miles northwest of St. George, on the Utah-Nevada border.

The fire had not damaged any buildings, but some residents left their homes voluntarily as the flames approached, said David Boyd, a fire spokesman for the Bureau of Land Management.

The National Interagency Fire Center said 32 large fires were active Friday in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon and Utah. An estimated 3.9 million acres of land has been burned so far this year, compared with 4.6 million at this time last year.

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