(15 Jul 2025)
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Tusayan, Arizona – 15 July 2025
1. Smoke billowing in distance over Grand Canyon
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Clarinda Vail, mayor of Tusayan:
"So the fire was a lightning caused fire that began on July 4th and we’ve really not been seeing impacts of smoke until yesterday. It was pretty bad yesterday inside the canyon, you can see today, it’s a lot better. The air quality is a lot better and we hope it’ll continue to stay that way. We haven’t had a lot of impacts thus far other than kind of the emotional impacts of losing the North Rim Lodge."
3. Smoke billowing in distance over Grand Canyon
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Clarinda Vail, mayor of Tusayan:
"I think when there’s no loss of human life that’s the most important and there was a lot of people over there and luckily they got all the visitors and everyone out and then got all of the staff out the next day so I don’t want to point fingers. I’m just happy that nobody, that nobody died, that there was no loss of human life."
5. Smoke billowing in distance over Grand Canyon
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Clarinda Vail, mayor of Tusayan:
"It’s very emotional. I’ve been to the North Rim many times. My husband used to work for a company that drives shuttle to there and we’ve spent many nights over there, had a lot of anniversaries and we go hunt our elderberries on the Kaibab over there, on the North Kaibab and it’s just, it’s a very special place. It would be like losing one of the historic buildings here at the South Rim. It’s very, very special and it is a tragic loss."
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Christi Anderson, visitor from Sacramento:
"In the morning, it looked a lot like this but by the afternoon it was completely socked in. You couldn’t see anything, none of that you could see. So, it was crazy."
8. Smoke billowing in distance over Grand Canyon
9. Grand Canyon National Park sign
STORYLINE:
A wildfire that tore through a historic Grand Canyon lodge and raged out of control Monday had been allowed to burn for days before erupting over the weekend, raising scrutiny over the National Park Service’s decision not to aggressively attack the fire right away.
Tusayan mayor, Clarinda Vail, told the Associated Press on Tuesday she didn’t want to point fingers.
"I’m just happy that nobody that nobody died, that there was no loss of human life," Vail said.
The wildfire along the canyon’s more isolated North Rim, where most visitors don’t venture, was burning quickly with no containment, fire officials said. No injuries had been reported, but more than 70 structures were lost, including a visitors center and several cabins.
At first, the fire didn’t raise alarms after igniting from a lightning strike on July 4. Four days later, the Park Service said the fire was being allowed to burn to benefit the land and fire crews were keeping close watch.
The fire destroyed the Grand Canyon Lodge, the only lodging inside the park’s North Rim, along with employee housing and a wastewater treatment plant, park Superintendent Ed Keable said Sunday.
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