Two fast-moving, lightning-caused brush fires moved within about a mile of merging Wednesday in the Tonto National Forest, the flames from one forcing the evacuation of an estimated 200 to 400 homes, spokesmen said.
CAREFREE,
Ariz. (AP) -- Two fast-moving, lightning-caused brush fires moved within
about a mile of merging Wednesday in the Tonto National Forest, the
flames from one forcing the evacuation of an estimated 200 to 400
homes, spokesmen said.
Winds moving from the south-southeast
pushed flames from one of the fires making up the 2,000-acre Cave Creek
Complex fire to the Tonto Hills subdivision, about 20 miles northeast
of Phoenix, said Jim Payne, a regional Forest Service spokesman.
''The
areas we're concerned about are to the east. And that includes the
Tonto Hills subdivision. The fire has reached the top of a ridge.
Aircraft are putting slurry there to keep the fire from backing down
(the hill),'' he said.
He said the fire was about 1
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