just a little update. Slide rock at 7500 acres, 5% contained. Believed to be man-made. One of the fire guys said the trees are so dry they are flashing into ash. (is that possible?)
“The fuels are just so dry, entire trees are turning to ash,” said Dick Fleishman, a spokesman for fire managers.
A primary focus of firefighting efforts will be to pinch off the fire where it has reached the top of the canyon’s northeast corner to keep it from burning northward toward residential areas, he said.
Sciacca said 500 firefighters were assigned to the fire Thursday
http://www.azfamily.com/news/Many-residents-flee-as-Slide-Fire-grows-260249701.html
The snags might. And there are a lot of them. If you look at the burn map you so kindly linked me to, you will note the west and east fingers up top. At that end, if you switch to sat on the map, you can see the more clear areas ahead of it. Those are the areas we logged. The fires stopped dead right there. Further ahead, at Fort Tuthill, you can also see the areas we logged. To the west of those, there is areas where state land meets federal land and the state land is really thick timbered-I would put it at over 100 BSA-it should be at no more than 50 BSA. That fire gets to there and it is another huge problem.
I think they got this fire licked as to those areas. The problem remains down in the canyon. AND it all depends on the weather.