AZTNF Wood Fire

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The type of incident is Wildfire and involves the following unit(s) Tonto National Forest.

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State: Arizona

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Coordinates:

Latitude: 33° 14 11 Longitude: -111° 7 61

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NOTE: All fire perimeters and points are approximations.

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Incident Overview: The Wood fire remains active and is primarily progressing to the east, south of Superior, Arizona on the Globe Ranger District. Firefighters are working to hold the fire west of Arnett Creek in order to minimize impacts to private property, power and gas lines, State Route 177 and range infrastructure which are the primary values at risk. As the fire moves out of the steep rugged inaccessible country that it has burned within for the last several days, it will give firefighters more safe options to mitigate risk to the above listed values. We do ask patience in allowing firefighters to contain this fire in the safest way possible with the least amount of damage to important properties and infrastructure. This fire is burning under moderate conditions in remote rugged terrain. This area was heavily impacted by the Telegraph Fire in 2021 and is now experiencing a much shorter natural fire return interval. Firefighters are working to mitigate impacts to infrastructure and other values on the landscape while this naturally caused fire burns under moderate conditions with lower temperatures, higher relative humidity, and scattered rain in the area.Lightning-caused fires are a natural part of the ecosystem as they improve overall forest health and reduce fuel loads that have the potential to cause wildfires.