- Aspen Fire
Infobox wildfire
title= Aspen Fire
location=Mount Lemmon ,Arizona
date=June 17 -July 12 ,2003
time=
timezone= PDT
acres= 84,750 acres (343 km²)
source=
landuse= Mixed, residential and wildlands
fatalities= 0
injuries=
perps=
motive=The Aspen Fire burned from
June 17 ,2003 for about a month onMount Lemmon , part of theSanta Catalina Mountains located in theCoronado National Forest north ofTucson, Arizona , and in the surrounding area. It burned 84,750acre s (343 km²) of land, and destroyed 340 homes and businesses of the town of Summerhaven.Damages to electric lines, phone lines, water facilities, streets and sewers totaled $4.1 million dollars. Firefighting cost was about $17 million, and the Forest Service is spending $2.7 million dollars to prevent soil loss.
In 2002, the year before the fire started, Congress had been requested to allocate about $2,000,000 to cover the implementation of fire prevention measures in the Coronado National Forest. However, that allocation was reduced to about $150,000 in the Congressional budget process.
External links
* [http://www.azstarnet.com/wildfire/intro.html Arizona Daily Star article covering the event]
* [http://www.aspenfirerecovery.org/ Pima County Aspen Fire Recovery] siteReferences
* Barnes, Mary Ellen. "Forged by Fire: The Devastation and Renewal of a Mountain Community." [Tucson, AZ] : Vireo House, 2005.
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