Firefighter dies while battling blaze at Grand Canyon
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Scientists with Northern Arizona University will install sensors and cameras that’ll alert them if water entering aquifers on the North Rim is carrying higher than normal amounts of ash and sediment.
Among the 106 structures scorched or destroyed by flames were the Grand Canyon Lodge, the visitor’s center, and a wastewater treatment plant, according to the Department of Interior’s
Firefighter J. Hank Hester was from Idaho and working on the Dragon Bravo Fire when he died Monday following a cardiac emergency.
The historic Grand Canyon Lodge on the North Rim was perhaps the best known casualty of the Dragon Bravo Fire. But nearly half of all structures along the rim were affected.
The National Park Service painted a rosy picture of the situation at the Grand Canyon during the first week of the Dragon Bravo Fire, but weather data shows a disaster was in the making at the North Rim. As the July 4 fire intensified, the National Park ...
The Dragon Bravo Fire on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon remains at 80 percent containment as favorable weather conditions aid suppression efforts.
Crews working on the Dragon Bravo fire on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park are getting a break — in the form of monsoon storms.