Firefighters spent most of Sunday strengthening fire lines in the Summerhaven area and burning down the ridge line north of the town as they continued to fight the 58,500-acre Bighorn Fire, officials said. East of the Mount Lemmon Highway, crews are staying ahead of the fire’s edge and working to keep it from crossing the road near structures, said Rick Miller, an operations section chief of the Southwest Incident Management Team in a briefing Sunday afternoon. Pumps and sprinklers also were placed in the Willow Canyon area.
“Everything between Willow Canyon and Summerhaven has been prepped for structure protection with pumps and hand lines and we have a plan for all of that should the fire come this way,” Miller said.
As of Monday morning, no structures have been damaged in Summerhaven.