Fire in the Goldfields

Nighthiker · Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1714

At 6pm this evening a large brushfire apx. 400 acres is now burning in the Goldfields just North of Apache Junction.

Nighthiker · Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1714

Apache Trail (AZ 88) is now closed because of the fire.

Arizonaheat · Posted: 6/29/2005, 8:10 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the info Nighthiker. The Slurry Bombers are passing over one after another.
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Trishness · Posted: 6/29/2005, 8:12 pm Post subject:

At dusk the ridgeline (as I can see it from my house) from Praying Hands halfway to Superstition Peak was engulfed in a cloud of smoke.

Sad

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"Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains." � J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of The Rings.

Nighthiker · Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1714

One of first large brush fires in my career was at the front of the Superstitions's. The slurry bombers were flying so low that dogs were chasing them. At the time the slurry bombers were B-17's, DC-4s, A-26's and a B-24 that had its H type tail replaced with a single tail.