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Charred acreage at nearly 300,000 acres; fire to hit Show Low soon

Judd Slivka, Pat Flannery, Kristin Go June 23, 2002 11:05:00

SHOW LOW - Two huge wildfires raging through northeastern Arizona have exploded to a total of nearly 300,000 acres, fire officials said Sunday morning, with the larger blaze expected to hit Show Low by afternoon or Monday morning.

Cautioned operations section chief Buck Wickham, "That's a projection, and this fire has done nothing that we've projected yet."

Show Low on Sunday was a smoky, deserted town under a thick gray sky. Traffic lights were blinking on streets empty of traffic except for police cars and fire trucks - some from the Valley.

Businesses were shuttered, many with hand-lettered signs reading "Closed due to evacuation." Motels were empty except for fire crews. Every passing car seemed to be either law enforcement or bore a number painted in white on its windshield indicating the driver is a fire crew member. Fire Chief Ben Owens said everybody who wanted to leave town is gone. As for the others, "Maybe today when we're out there, we'll ask those people for their next of kin."

The two fires, the "Rodeo" fire and the "Chediski" fire, did not merge Saturday night as earlier reported, fire officials said Sunday morning, and remain about two miles apart. The Rodeo blaze is now estimated at 200,000 acres, they said, while the Chediski fire has consumed some 93,000 acres. There's no containment in sight.

Operations chief Roy Hall said, "We're going to try to hold in the southern part of Hop Canyon. I have no confidence we can hold it in the northern part of the canyon. Once it gets into town, its magnitude is increased by an order of 10."