Gran Fire

Time/Date Started: Little Granite Mtn, July 21, 2006, 1610 hours
Location: 7 miles east of Bartlett Dam, 9 miles NE of Rio Verde, AZ
Cause: Lightning
Fuels: Desert grass and brush
Size: 5,245 acres
Contained: 85 % (revised figure, 7/25, 2006: better mapping & reassessment)
Expected containment: 7/27/2006 (revised from other containment dates of 7/30 & 7/25) Resources Committed: 4 Type 2 crews; 1 helicopter (resources are being demobilized) Type 1 Incident Management Team (Jeff Whitney) returned management of fire back to Tonto National Forest, yesterday morning
Personnel assigned: 127
Estimated Cost to Date: $500,900
Resources at risk: kV345 lines – potential smoke. Riparian habitat. Structure protection put in place at Sunflower.