A wildfire on the north side of Mount Graham in Frye Canyon burned about 400 acres of brush Tuesday. The fire, dubbed the Frye Mesa Fire, began Tuesday afternoon during a prescribed burn, said Heidi Schewel, a spokeswoman for the Coronado National Forest.

By Tom Beal, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson May 24--Mother Nature dropped a blanket of snow and rain on Southeast Arizona and Southwest New Mexico Friday, pretty much snuffing the Frye Mesa Fire on the slopes of Mount Graham near Safford and the Whitmire Fire in the grasslands of the Malpais in the bootheel of New Mexico.

By Dan Sorenson, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Feb. 15--A grassland wildfire, driven by 50-mph winds and low humidity in the San Rafael Valley south of Sonoita, jumped from 200 acres around 2 p.m. Thursday to roughly 2,500 by evening..

By Doug Kreutz, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Aug. 19--Dead trees stand like towering tombstones along the Oracle Ridge Trail high in the Catalina Mountains.

A lightning-sparked blaze charred about six acres in the Santa Catalina Mountains on Monday, fire officials said.