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Photos: The Wallow Fire in 2011
- Rick Wiley
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The Wallow Fire started on May 29, 2011 and burned through nearly 538,000 acres of Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in northeastern Arizona. It is the largest wildfire in state history.
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The Wallow Fire enters the town of Greer, Ariz., on June 8, 2011.
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The Wallow Fire in Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest burning out of control in June, 2011.
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The Wallow Fire has grown to nearly 607 square miles
The Wallow Fire has grown to nearly 607 square miles
The Wallow Fire has grown to nearly 607 square miles
The Wallow Fire has grown to nearly 607 square miles
The Wallow Fire has grown to nearly 607 square miles
Wallow Fire closes on Eagar and Springerville
Wallow Fire closes on Eagar and Springerville
Wallow Fire closes on Eagar and Springerville
Wallow Fire closes on Eagar and Springerville
Wallow Fire closes on Eagar and Springerville
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wallowfire 02 JUNE 2011 - ALPINE, AZ: Smoke from the Wallow Fire near Alpine turned the sky orange. High winds and temperatures complicated firefighters' efforts to get the blaze under control. Officials have issued a preliminary evacuation order warning residents to be ready to move in the next 12 hours. ARIZONA REPUBLIC PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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A photographer looks at smoke from a burnout fire as firefighters battle the Wallow Fire in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Ariz., Sunday, June 12, 2011. Roughly 7,000 residents of two eastern Arizona towns evacuated last week as a wildfire loomed nearby were allowed to return home Sunday as officials expressed confidence that they were making progress in their battle against the huge blaze that has been burning since May. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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A smoke plume over the east side of the Wallow Fire climbs high into the sky Monday afternoon, June 6, 2011, as strong winds fanned the Wallow Fire in Eager, Ariz. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Pat Shannahan) MARICOPA COUNTY OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES
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Trees burn in a burnout fire as firefighters battle the Wallow Fire in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Ariz., Sunday, June 12, 2011. Roughly 7,000 residents of two eastern Arizona towns evacuated last week as a wildfire loomed nearby were allowed to return home Sunday as officials expressed confidence that they were making progress in their battle against the huge blaze that has been burning since May. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Arik Quezada and Jamie Holland talk as they watch dogs that were evacuated from the Wallow Fire at the Apache County Fairgrounds in St. Johns, Ariz. on Saturday, June 11, 2011. More than 250 dogs and cats as well as 100 livestock including horses, pigs, llamas and ostriches are at the shelter. An eye-stinging, throat-burning haze of smoke spewing from a gigantic wildfire in eastern Arizona is beginning to stretch as far east as central New Mexico, prompting health officials to warn residents as far away as Albuquerque about potential respiratory hazards. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Kadlubowski)
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Safety officer Kurt Schierenbeck opens a gate as the Wallow Fire approaches Eagar Ariz., on June 8, 2011. A raging forest fire in eastern Arizona has scorched an area the size of Phoenix, threatening thousands of residents and emptying towns as the flames raced toward New Mexico. (AP Photo/ The Arizona Republic, Michael Chow)
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Firefighters listen during a briefing about the Wallow Fire in Eagar, Ariz., on Monday, June 6, 2011. The U.S. Forest Service says the Wallow blaze has burned nearly 193,000 acres or 300 square miles, and there is no containment. Fire crews are continuing burnout operations hoping to rob the wildfire of fuel. About 2,300 firefighters are at the scene, including some from as far away as New York. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Michael Chow)
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73-year-old Jerry Kinney, reflected in the mirror, lights a cigarette as smoke plumes from the Wallow fire fill the sky in Luna, N.M., Monday, June 6, 2011. Firefighters worked furiously Monday to save a line of mountain communities in eastern Arizona from a gigantic blaze that has forced thousands of people from their homes and cast a smoky haze over states as far away as Iowa. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Flames and smoke shoot skyward from the Wallow Fire, Tuesday, June 7, 2011, near Greer, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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In a June 5, 2011 photo provided by Chris Birch, an air tanker drops fire retardent over the Wallow fire near Alpine, Ariz. Smoke from the wildfire stretched into nearby states, creating hazy conditions in Iowa and prompting officials to issue health advisories Tuesday for the southern half of Colorado. The 365-square-mile blaze has been burning in ponderosa forests for more than a week. (AP Photo/Chris Birch) Birch)
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A wildfire in Southeastern Arizona has continued to grow while another blaze near Arivaca is almost contained, fire officials said Friday.
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The thinned swaths of forest that stood between two Arizona towns and the advancing Wallow Fire did not stop the blaze. The selective logging and clearing did, however, change the behavior of an inferno that was leaping treetop-to-treetop.
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