Overview
- Fire crews and local authorities ordered immediate 'GO' evacuations for neighborhoods near Rolling Ridge Drive and Marble Canyon Way on Thursday after the blaze was first reported.
- Investigators later confirmed the blaze began as a residential structure fire that spread into adjacent wildland, turning a house fire into a wildfire incident.
- Responders stopped the fire's forward progress that afternoon and aerial assessment updated the size to about 6 acres with containment later reported near 10 percent.
- The fire damaged at least two buildings and multiple vehicles, prompted an American Red Cross and Animal Disaster Services shelter at Mayer High School, and caused no reported injuries.
- The Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management assumed command, deployed handcrews and requested air attack and SEATs, and officials lifted evacuations the same evening as crews moved to overhaul and investigation.