"Between the terrain and the wind, it's been a really challenging fire," a fire official said.
A massive wildfire just northeast of Phoenix continued to burn through thousands of acres of desert and forestland Wednesday, triggering evacuations as Arizona is also dealing with a spike in coronavirus cases.
The blaze began Saturday with a car fire. Amid mostly sustained winds of 25 mph to 30 mph, it quickly spread through terrain that includes Sonoran desert and canyon lands to ponderosa pine forest, said Dee Hines, a spokesman for the team fighting the fire. Hines said 1,576 people were in the evacuation area, although it wasn't immediately clear how many people had left. The American Red Cross has opened three evacuation centers, in Tucson, Payson and Miami, according to spokeswoman Greta Gustafson. There were 26 people among them, although the facilities aren't meant for overnight stays.
Arizona, which has recorded nearly 40,000 cases and roughly 1,200 deaths, according to an NBC News tally, had its single largest daily increase in new cases this week. According to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, the state added 2,400 new cases Tuesday.
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