The Coconino County Sheriff's Office has ordered the evacuations of some communities in northeastern Arizona due to the Tinder Fire, which has now burned over 8,600 acres. Evacuations have been ordered for all Moqui Ranchettes, Starlight Pines, Clear Creek, all of Tameron, Ponderosa Pines, Timber Ranch, Blue Ridge Estates, Mongollon Ranches and Pine Canyon. That means about six hundred people evacuated from about one thousand homes in the area.
Though there were about twenty people who refused to leave their homes. At least three thousand people are under mandatory or voluntary evacuation orders. There are over five hundred fire fighters working this fire including seven headshot crews. People are also being asked by authorities to take precautions to strong winds and smoke.
http://www.azfamily.com/story/38068866/communities-in-northeastern-arizona-evacuated-for-tinder-fire?autostart=true
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