Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley addresses the media from the fire media camp (Brandon Neuman/NAZ Today)
FLAGSTAFF (NAZ Today)– Day three of the Schultz Fire was a good one for both residents and firefighters.
Evacuees were allowed to return to their homes at around 8 am this morning. Despite a few flareups, the fire only grew about 500 acres to 14,500 acres. The fire is now 25 percent contained.
Firefighters worked hard to save Lockett Meadow today, and dropped ping-pong balls filled with flammable liquid to start a controlled fire designed to burn away fuels ahead of the fire and stop it from spreading into the Inner Basin.
Officials from the Type-1 Incident Command Team would not speculate how large the fire would grow to once the containment line was finished around the northern and western parts of the fire.
Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley spoke to the media about how the San Francisco Peaks are sacred not only to the Navajo people. “The mountain is sacred to 13 other nations,” Shirley said. He also mentioned that the Navajo hot shots were quick to respond to the fire. “They were some of the first ones here.”
Shirley spent the afternoon touring the fire area and at the Emergency Operations Center in Flagstaff with local officials.
Below is the video of President Shirley addressing the media:
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