FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.—For the second time in less than two months, thousands of Flagstaff residents fled their homes in the face of yet another devastating wildfire.
“We cope. God says, ‘Here you are. Do what you need to do,’ ” said Percy Piestewa, whose family lost property in the Tunnel Fire in mid-April.
That blaze burned nearly 20,000 acres of the Coconino National Forest 14 miles northeast of Flagstaff, an area that overlaps the 2010 Schulz Wildfire burn scar.
“The [Tunnel Fire] took all our storage sheds, our boat trailer—everything that was up on the north side. But that’s the hazards of fire,” she told The Epoch Times….