Handling of National Park Service Wildfire that destroys historical Grand Canyon Lodge

Grand Canyon National Park, Aries. – A forest fire Through a historic Grand Canyon Lodge And was out of control on Monday, allowing burns for days before the explosion over the weekend, to increase the investigation on the National Park Service’s decision to attack fire aggressively.

Firefighting officials said the canian’s more isolated North Rim, where most visitors do not do the ventures, were burning quickly without any control. There was no injury, but more than 70 structures were lost, including a visitor center and several cabins.

First, the fire did not extend the alarm after igniting the power strike on 4 July. Four days later, Park Seva said that the fire was being allowed to burn to benefit the land and firefighters who were keeping an eye on.

Park said on Facebook, “There is no threat to infrastructure or public safety at this time.”

Then three days later, on Friday, the fire officials and the park service warned to “evacuate immediately” as the fire exceeded 1.4 square miles about eight times within a day.

Arizona Gove Katie Hobbes called the park service for a federal investigation in the handling of fire.

“The federal government selected Arizona Summer to manage that fire as a controlled burning during summer,” Governor Said in a social media post on Sunday,

Hobbes spokesman Christian Slater said in an email that it will soon hold a meeting with leadership in the US One Service to learn more about the US Forest Service and the US Department of the Wildfire.

The authorities first used a “Confine and Included” strategy, but shifted to aggressive repression as fire – one of the two who are working on the firefighting northern rim – rapidly growing due to rapid warm temperatures, low humidity and strong wind gust, firefighters said.

The Associated Press on Monday left the phone and email messages with a park service spokesman, commenting on how the fire was managed.

The fire destroyed the Grand Canyon Lodge, with the only housing, staff residence and an waste water treatment plant inside the northern rim of the park, Park Superintendent Ed Cable said on Sunday.

Park officials have stopped access to the north rim for the remaining year, a low popular area that draws only 10% of the Grand Canyon’s millions of annual visitors.

Hikers in the region were evacuated and the rafers on the Colorado River, who were asked to bypass snakes through canian to bypass a checkpoint of Phantom Renches, Cabin and Dermitary. The area from North and South Rims of Canian was also closed.

By air, black smoke plums can be seen rising above the walls of the valley and can be seen parts filled with parts of the park. From the South Rim of the park, visitors took pictures to blank the smoke blanket on Monday.

The fire was surrounded by strong winds on Saturday night. The Park Seva said that the firefighters succeeded in progressing, before they used air fire drops near the lodge, before they pulled back due to chlorine gas leakage at the water treatment plant.

Hikers were also concerned that poisonous, heavy gas, downhills could be immersed in the valley.

“Arizona lost more than a historic lodge, losing a piece of history of our state,” said Arizona Sen Ruben Galgo in a message Posted on social media,

Gallego and Fellow Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly Ben Gallego sent a letter to internal secretary Dag Bergam on Monday, as to how the administration has recently planned to track the wildfire decision under an executive order to consolidate the federal firefighters in a program.

Across the west, about three dozen fire was burning and another 80 fire was being successful to evacuate the vegetation, which has closed the landscape, according to the National International Fire Center in Idaho’s bois.

So far this year, about 2.5 million acres have been burnt. It is slightly below an average of 10 years, the Center said on Monday.

With the North Rim of Grand Canyon, the Dragon Bravo Fire that destroyed the lodges and other buildings spread to about 9 square miles on Monday.

The fire of white sage also increased significantly and was done without any control in the area of 77 square miles. Officials reported progress in struggling with fire.

The fire broke out three years after two incorrectly scheduled fire organized by the US Forest Service, causing a fire-pillar of the hermet, burning over 530 square miles of Rocky Mountain foothills and destroyed hundreds of houses.

The Grand Canyon Lodge, its huge pondrasa beam, large -scale limestone masks and a bronze statue of a donkey called “Brightl the Baro”, placed on the banks of the northern rim and offered sweeping scenes of the valley.

“It was as if you are watching the film all the time,” Eric Ammralon said, who lived in Arizona for most of his adult life and stayed in Lodge about 10 years ago. “You are really one with nature.”

Aramark, a company operating the lodge, said that all employees and guests were safely evacuated.

According to the Grand Canian Historical Society, four years after the construction was completed in 1932, a original lodge was burnt with a kitchen fire. Re -designed lodges using the original stonework opened in 1937.