Arizona Wildfire Destroys Observatory Buildings

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Astronomers watched in fear over the past week as a growing wildfire crept up an Arizona mountainside toward the Kitt Peak National Observatory, forcing 40 people to evacuate days before the blaze destroyed four buildings early Friday morning.

The fire, known as the Contreras fire, has scorched more than 18,000 acres, twisting among Indigenous-populated areas in the state near Tucson, and scientists might not be able to return to the observatory for weeks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/19/us/wildfire-arizona-kitt-peak-observatory.html
 
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