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Firefighters working to keep more homes from burning on the edge of a mountain town in northern Arizona were treated to scattered showers and cooler temperatures early on Friday, but the favorable weather was not expected to last as more.
The elements needed for critical fire weather are “pretty much on steroids in the atmosphere for tomorrow,” a spokesman for the National Weather Service said.
Firefighters fanned out across blackened landscape in Arizona s high country, digging into the ground to put out smoldering tree stumps and roots as helicopters buzzed overhead with buckets of water to drop on a massive blaze.