Tenderfoot Fire downgraded to 3300 acres

She says 3 out buildings have burned but no homes have been lost. “That’s all we’re wishing right now”.

Incident Commander Alan Sinclair said he would meet with the fire planners and local officials to discuss allowing people who have been evacuated from Yarnell back to their homes.

The Red Cross said it has opened an evacuation center at Yavapai College at 1100 E. Sheldon St.in Prescott for those who have been evacuated due to the Tenderfoot Fire.

Dwight Develyn of the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office said that YCSO is now in the town of Yarnell conducting evacuations along the east side of Yarnell. evacuations were extended to the west side of Yarnell hours later.

About 140 firefighting personnel were battling the blaze, supported by three air tankers and two helicopters making blaze suppression drops.

Officials are weighing whether to reopen a major road that has been shut down by an Arizona brush fire.

On June 28, 2013, a lightning storm ignited the Yarnell Hill Fire in the high desert northwest of Phoenix. The highway was closed on either side of the town. Her auto is packed just in case.

She said neighbors have been in constant contact and offered to help each other pack, ensure doors are locked and deliver food and water.

“That is just a handsome aspect of tragedy, how close we as a community have grown and healed through what we all went through”, she said.

That includes firefighters from Yarnell, Congress, Peeples Valley, BLM and U.S. Forest Service.

“It’s terrible”, he said Wednesday evening in a telephone interview as he watched a helicopter drop water on the blaze and juggled a steady stream of calls to his cellphone.

There have been no reports of injuries or deaths so far.

Yavapai County’s Emergency Manager said their is no active call for donations.

The 19 firefighters killed in June 2013 were members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots trapped by flames in a canyon – the deadliest US tragedy for wildland firefighters in several decades.

The fire is raging in the same city where the Granite Mountain Hotshots died on June 30, 2013. It was the greatest loss of life from a USA wildfire in 80 years. The fire burned 127 homes.