Arizona fire forces 4,000 evacuations

Thursday, June 20, 2002

As many as 4,000 people were ordered out of their homes Wednesday as a wind-whipped wildfire exploded to nearly 19,000 acres as it leaped from treetop to treetop in the mountains of eastern Arizona.

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