In Arizona, fire crews are battling a series of wildfires that have swept across more than 30 square miles, fueled by high winds. Parts of the Tonto and Prescott National Forests have been burned, while hundreds of residents have been evacuated from the town of Crown King in central Arizona. The blazes are the first in Arizona this year since last year’s record season that saw more than 1,500 square miles consumed by fire. Joe Reinarz of the U.S. Forest Service said some areas remain too dangerous for crews to enter.

Joe Reinarz: “This basin that we were worried about last night that’s coming out, we said one to four days. It didn’t go today, so we passed the one day mark. And what we’re doing right now — they just ordered six air tankers to be putting some retardant along here to keep that checked up as long as we can. And one of the reasons we’re doing that is we don’t want it in there, for one. We’re not sure that that’s going to stop it, until we get boots on the ground, but we can’t go in there when there’s a high probability it’s going to take off.”