Dozens Of Homes Destroyed In Arizona's Spur Fire; Town Of Bagdad Evacuated
Summer has not even started in the US and already the nation is seeing another major wildfire, this time in Arizona. Dubbed the Spur Fire, the blaze hit the copper-mining town of Bagdad just as it was experiencing 80 degree days this week. The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office began the immediate evacuation of the town's 1,500 people as the wildfire began to cause massive property damage.
Dozens of homes have already been consumed by the flames, as well as different mining infrastructure, power lines and fiber optic cables. The entire area is currently experiencing an emergency blackout and cut off from landline communications. Local firefighters are already on the scene and working to contain the spread, but forecasts indicate that the fire may reach a wider area before then.
The Spur Fire could be seen as yet another tragic example of how global warming has gradually resulted in a number of environment-related problems in the state. Rivers and reservoirs have been drying up in the last couple of decades, while two of its cities have experienced heat waves that have been the highest out of the entire country. This year, drought forecasts are expected to affect roughly 94% of the entire state.
It does not help that the Arizona government has also been at a growing center of climate action controversy. The recent decade has seen a steady reversal of many policies that once put the state as a pioneer in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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