While most of Summerhaven, a popular destination for Tucsonans for its hiking and cool mountain scenery atop Mt. Lemmon, was destroyed, the majority of the residents vowed to rebuild.
Aspen Fire: Summerhaven was forever changed
- By Johanna Eubank
Arizona Daily Star
Johanna Eubank
Online producer
- Updated
Northwest Fire District crew members take a breather along the Marshall Gulch trail as slurry planes drop their loads on the next ridge. The firefighters hiked more than four miles into the thin air at 8,000 feet.
David Sanders / Arizona Daily StarJohanna Eubank
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