Arizona Wildfire Causes Evacuations
Associated Press
PHOENIX —
An out-of-control 2,000-acre wildfire prompted the evacuation Monday of as many as 5,000 people on the Ft. Apache Indian Reservation, authorities said.
Elsewhere Monday, a fire burning on densely timbered slopes near Yakima in south-central Washington was holding steady at about 2,000 acres. Residents who had to leave 20 homes Friday, the day the fire began, were allowed to return.
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