A growing wildfire at the Grand Canyon's North Rim has now charred at least 50 structures. Hundreds of firefighters working from the air and ground in Arizona are battling the so-called Dragon Bravo blaze. More than 500 tourists and park staffers have been evacuated since the fire broke out on July 4, apparently from a lightning strike. "We are working 24 hours around the clock on this fire," says Operations Section Chief Rob Roy Williams.
CBS / Southwest Area Complex Incident Management Team / AFP
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00:00Because it's kind of clear maybe, I think 5,000, 6,000, but we still get some more updates this morning at 8 o'clock, right, so the whole North Rim is closed through the rest of the 20, 25, we know this, but it's like, yesterday morning, and then by yesterday at 4 o'clock it's just a wall of smoke, and, yeah.
00:25Right along the rim, and then you can also see kind of more on the right how it started to fill in on the canyon, so the smoke has lifted today compared to what it looked like yesterday, we do have some updated numbers on firefighters, right now there are over 360 firefighters,
00:55working to contain this blaze, there's also five helicopters, they're really working on dropping water in areas, you know, this is a really rough terrain to get to, again, that smoke in some areas we can see is right on the rim, I'm sure there's other spots we can't see, so this is difficult terrain, those helicopters are really trying to work, hit with the fire, and hit it with the water, now one of the things that we saw yesterday, was through the evening, it was getting intense, windy conditions up here, and our crews are still out there,
01:25working, we are working, we are working 24 hours around the clock on this fire, we do have an active day shift and a night shift that we will be working, doing suppression work around the fire for at least the next short duration until we have the fire into a position where we know there's no more threat to any of the critical infrastructure in and around the north rim of the Grand Canyon.
