Grand Canyon lodge destroyed
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"We were just short on resources, didn't have enough people, enough aircraft to get there and, you know, effectively fight the fire," said Stanley in a phone interview, speaking of his first night working on the fire as part of an air attack crew.
The only lodging on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim was among dozens of structures consumed by the Dragon Bravo Fire, which has burned more than 5,000 acres.
Arizona's governor has demanded an investigation into why a wildfire that destroyed a historic lodge and dozens of other structures on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon was allowed to burn for a week before federal firefighters tried to put it out.
Monsoon rain falls over the Grand Canyon, helping to fight the Dragon Bravo Fire burning on the North Rim in this 15-minute time-lapse.