VIDEO: Over the weekend, Florence residents took photos of the Desert Lantern Festival showing lanterns falling from the sky and catching fire.
"As the pictures get shown it'll demonstrate how potentially bad this could've been," Florence resident Michael Baca said. "I'm not surprised, due to the fact that this climate and this area is so dry. We haven't had any rain for months and months. It looks like a tinder box out there."
Baca says he and his girlfriend decided to go to the event after hearing about the mess left behind at a similar festival in Pinal County two weeks ago.
"Our interest was piqued, so we decided to go and see how it played out," Baca said.
What resulted was what looked like a wildfire raging at the Country Thunder Ranch. Baca says firefighters thankfully put it out quickly.