Wallow Fire blazes across border into NM

The nearly 400,000-acre Wallow Fire crossed the Arizona-New Mexico border Wednesday, and forest officials on the Gila National Forest have a Type 1 Incident Management Team ready to attack. Sig Palm, acting public information officer on the fire, said the Type 1 Team is the largest, most experienced and highly trained team of firefighters. The core team consists of about 50 and they can oversee about 2,500 fire personnel, he said. The team is gearing up in Reserve and the surrounding area, and has already done some pre-treatment lines on some back roads in the area, he said...more