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MONSTER WILDFIRE IN ARIZONA BY M.REZA SALAMI, Ph.D., P.E.

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Uploaded by on Jun 10, 2011

A wildfire in Arizona that has blackened an area half the size of Rhode Island, prompted the evacuation of some 2,000 people in its path, and is threatening long-distance power lines that serve New Mexico and Texas, is the latest poster child for what some scientists see as a long-term trend toward larger, longer-lived wildfires in the American West.In Texas, whose fire season officially starts each Nov. 15, wildfires have already consumed a record 2.8 million acres this season, according to the state's Forest Service. In Florida, firefighters are working to douse 35 wildfires larger than 100 acres, the largest of which has burned just over 160,000 acres near the Florida-Georgia border.
Fire statistics gathered at the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) in Boise, Idaho, give a rough glimpse of the trend toward more scorched earth in the US.

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