A hearth was sparked in a single day within the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, with about 50 acres burning within the Ventana Canyon space.
Lighting was hanging the mountains in a single day, and the blaze started at 3:36 a.m., officers mentioned, however famous the trigger remains to be “underneath investigation.”
The wildfire was rising Tuesday morning, however is within the “burn scar” of the Bighorn Fireplace, which burned greater than 120,000 acres of the mountain over 48 days in 2020. The hearth is about two miles north of the Craycroft and Placita Alta Reposa space, officers mentioned.
Rose Canyon Lake has been closed to permit firefighters to make use of it as a “dipping website” for helicopters with water buckets, Coronado Nationwide Forest officers mentioned.
The next areas had been closed Monday morning, the Pima County Sheriff’s Division mentioned:
- Finger Rock path head
- Ventana Canyon path head
- Sabino Canyon overflow parking
- Pima Canyon path head
- Rose Canyon Lake
“Please keep away from these areas so that fireside combating sources can have easy accessibility to the mountain,” PCSD mentioned.
“No evacuations are anticipated right now. We are going to monitor this case and supply updates as circumstances change,” PCSD mentioned.