The Prescott Daily Courier
We’ve been watching that smoke all summer. Some days the sky was bluer than others. Things were getting bluer all last week, in fact. The Doce fire crews and the families in harm’s way were in our hearts.
And the situation had improved. As late as Saturday, the wildfire was better than 90 percent contained, and there was no loss of life or structures. It seemed that treating everyone affected by the fire to a terrific Fourth of July party in Prescott was in order.
Prescottonians – at a mile high elevation – have spent the summer how we always do: active in the outdoors, not in. Even during last week’s heat wave.
So we were personally aware that crews were on the fireline in both the heat of day and in the dead of night, around the clock, to protect all of our central Arizona communities. Just by watching the changing smoke patterns and the emergency planes flying overhead, we could tell if it was a bad day or a good day in the fight.
