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carry a long gun in his vehicle because in his words anything that requires a long gun requires a lot of paperwork and you re doing to find me as far away from it. he took two lunch breaks and attended a going away party. he began working as a community volunteer coordinator and months later praised their professionalism. arizona working to contain a wildfire. crews are being hampered by high winds, low human. the fire has scorched more than 16,000 acres. the state has issued a declaration of emergency. i want to bring in chad myers to talk about this. are we seeing any end in sight? no, and the wind is going to be 35 to 45 miles per hour. so that s going to harmper, too. the wind was blowing from the south, now blowing from the west. that makes firefighters scramble around. they know where the defense is, they know which way the fire is moving and all of a sudden after the cold front it changes direction. believe this or not, back the middle of may, may 15th, a wildfir
longer going to run. gives us a lot to talk about. carl cameron in d.c. for us today. jon: to the growing wildfire threat in a couple of western states. in northern colorado, hundreds of additional fire faters are on the front lines trying to keep one fire from reaching a reservoir for the city of greeley. this fire has burned 11 square miles of timber about. the smoke is so bad, children and people with health conditions have been asked to stay intoors are indoors there. in arizona the massive crown king fire is raging out of control. burned several square miles of land including 10 miles. hundreds of people evacuated there. it is one of several fires burning across that state. looks like the weather might not help those firefighters much. chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is in the fox extreme weather center with an update. rick. we have the season of wildfire danger. this is where the red flags
northern arizona. i want to tell you that this area, prescott, is outside of phoenix, and we ve seen this because they can see the smoke from the city of phoenix. it s 85 miles north of there, though, in the community of crown king, and that s why they re calling in the crown king fire. we know they ve had some evacuations now, 350 residents of a mountain community there in crown king, and they ve been trying to form some protection lines around areas. one just a short time ago got saved, pine flats, where they had about 40 properties. so they re trying to keep this fire contained as well as they can, but so far 80-100 acres have burned x no sign of and no sign of officially controlling in the fire. and these brand new pictures coming in, jon, it looks like nighttime, that smoke is so clear but, obviously, it is not. and dry, windy and hot in arizona right now. typical for this time of the year, but boy, it can be really,