The Telegraph Fire continues to flare up south of Globe and has grown to become the seventh-largest wildfire in Arizona history.
After burning through about 20,000 acres overnight, the blaze was measured at 123,078 acres Tuesday morning, moving up two spots on the all-time list.
It could soon pass the 2019 Woodbury Fire, which consumed 123,875 acres in Tonto National Forest to the north of where the Telegraph Fire is burning.
The Telegraph Fire containment was at 68%, and more than 1,000 personnel were assigned to battle the blaze, which has burned 22 structures since igniting south of Superior on June 4, according to the incident command’s Tuesday morning update.
The exact origin hasn’t been determined, but it’s being investigated as a human-caused incident.
The new growth is coming on the east side of the fire, into the San Carlos Apache Tribe reservation.