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Wildfire reaches Arizona

Residents of Show Low, Arizona, U.S., begin evacuation after an order to leave as the Rodeo fire complex continues to build on the horizon on Monday. — Reuters

SHOW LOW (Arizona) June 24. Firefighters struggling to block a monster Arizona wildfire from consuming the remote mountain town of Show Low said today they had managed to slow the blaze — but that it could flare back with fury at moment's notice.``Yesterday was a good day for Show Low,'' said Rob Deyerberg, a spokesman at the command centre for the wildfire burning about 240 km northeast of Phoenix.— Reuters

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