One of two slurry planes drops its load about three miles northeast Sonoita, AZ where a large wildfire that started about 1pm was burning on the Empire Ranch, Wednesday, June, 1, 2011.
Vera Earl Empire Ranch worker Beth Hughes (cq-BETH HUGHES) watches the fire from one of the dirt roads in the area as a wildfire burned on the Empire Ranch, Wednesday, June, 1, 2011. Photo by David Sanders/Arizona Daily Star.
An Erikson helicopter drops water onto a fire burning on the Empire Ranch near Sonoita, AZ where a large wildfire that started about 1pm was burning, Wednesday, June, 1, 2011.
Vera Earl Empire Ranch worker Manuel Murrieta contemplates the rising smoke from a wildfire that was started about 1pm on the Empire Ranch, Wednesday, June, 1, 2011.
An air tanker drops retardant on the Patagonia Fire near Patagoina Like on Thursday, June 2, 2011.
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Flames and smoke fill the air in the Patagonia Lake area Thursday, June 2, 2011.
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A spotter plane flies over a home in the Patagonia Lake area Thursday, June 2, 2011, ahead of an air tanker dropping fire retardant.
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A brush fire burning out of control along Yucca Ash Farm Road, east of SR 83 near Empire Ranch.
Courtesy Todd Bostock/Dos Cabezas WineWorks
One of two slurry planes drops its load about three miles northeast Sonoita, AZ where a large wildfire that started about 1pm was burning on the Empire Ranch, Wednesday, June, 1, 2011.
David Sanders/Arizona Daily Star
Vera Earl Empire Ranch worker Beth Hughes (cq-BETH HUGHES) watches the fire from one of the dirt roads in the area as a wildfire burned on the Empire Ranch, Wednesday, June, 1, 2011. Photo by David Sanders/Arizona Daily Star.
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An Erikson helicopter drops water onto a fire burning on the Empire Ranch near Sonoita, AZ where a large wildfire that started about 1pm was burning, Wednesday, June, 1, 2011.
David Sanders/Arizona Daily Star
Vera Earl Empire Ranch worker Manuel Murrieta contemplates the rising smoke from a wildfire that was started about 1pm on the Empire Ranch, Wednesday, June, 1, 2011.
David Sanders/Arizona Daily Star
Fire crew trucks are dwarfed by plumes of smoke from the Wallow Fire burning in the Bear Wallow Wilderness southwest of Alpine on June 1, 2011.
