UPDATE, 8-12-24: The fire is 93% contained and has burned 297 acres.
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Per Tonto National Forest Officials, “The Y Bar Fire is burning in steep, inaccessible terrain on the border and within the Mazatzal Wilderness. The fire is actively burning upslope and spreading up canyon through desert grass and brush, pushed by terrain winds and thunderstorm outflows. Firefighters constructed a dozer line yesterday and will work to connect this line into existing roads outside the wilderness. As the fire backs into the bottom of Shake Tree Canyon, crews are working to prevent fire from crossing the drainage bottom to the east to protect the communities of Deer Creek and Rye.”
This fire is at 191 acres with no containment.
