Fire crews worked today to extinguish the embers of a burnout, designed to save the Southwestern Research Station from the Horseshoe 2 Fire advancing toward it from the south.
The deliberately set fire, set Monday as the fire neared, was a success, said Michelle Fidler, spokeswoman for the incident management team coordinating the firefighting efforts here at the northeast edge of the Chircahua Mountains, 110 miles southwest of Tucson.
Meanwhile, some of the 630 firefighters assembled to contain the 27,000-acre blaze wer in the rural enclave of Paradise, two milies to the north of the research station.
They were clearing out brush around 29 cabins now in the path of the advancing fire.
High winds grounded the aerial fleet fighting the fire Monday afternoon and the same is expected today, with a red-flag warning in effect and gusts of up to 45 mph predicted.
People are also reading…
