(NewsNation) — The Grand Canyon has been on fire for a month, as crews continue to battle the continental United States’ largest wildfire this year.
The Dragon Bravo Fire, which began July 4, has grown to more than 116,000 acres and is now 12% contained. Lightning caused the blaze that has since destroyed dozens of structures and closed the northern part of the national park.
“As of August 3, the Dragon Bravo fire is still active and the fire perimeter continues to grow,” the National Park Service said in its latest status update.
The conditions have made for “poor firefighting weather,” according to the United States Forest Service, with high winds and record low humidity, which increases the risk of fire due to dried vegetation. MORE
Can’t Trump be blamed for this?
Man made Global Warming?
No, just the Earth doing what it’s done for about four and a half billion years…
Just fill it up with water and put the fire out, DUH!
Flash flood in India
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I was there in ’79 and for the life of me don’t recall any forests.
Must have been distracted by the big ditch. I only remember dirt and scrub.
We stayed at the north rim lodge many years ago. It was a great, old place. I’m very sorry to learn that it is no more. We also took time out to hike through some of the forest on the plateau and take a mule ride into the canyon. It was a great experience and made more so by the fact that the north rim has about 1/10th of the visitor traffic as the south during the height of summer, so we were able to visit without the hurry-up and wait, and the traffic. This is a terrible fire.
I’m still unnerved at the idea that you can just be walking along — right up to the last tree — and it opens out to a 600′ sheer drop. I thought about some kind of posse or group of soldiers on horses riding pell mell through the plateau woods and …..