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10 June 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 11:09 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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Evacuee Robi Robidoux: “I’m worried about being made homeless”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Firefighters in the US state of Arizona have begun slowly to wrest control of a huge wildfire that has scorched an area bigger than Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

The Wallow fire in eastern Arizona has now raged for 13 days, and is the second-largest in the state’s history.<\/p>\n

Firefighters have lit controlled burns to diminish the fuel available to the wildfire, and a tanker aircraft has dropped retardant on the flames.<\/p>\n

But the 603-sq-mile (1,562-sq-km) blaze was only 5% contained late on Thursday.<\/p>\n

‘No serious injuries’<\/span><\/p>\n

Twenty-two houses in the eastern Arizona town of Greer were confirmed destroyed and five damaged.<\/p>\n

Over the border in the state of New Mexico residents of the town of Luna were on alert.<\/p>\n

Winds have been moving the flames five to eight miles per day since it started more than a week ago, possibly caused by an unattended campfire.<\/p>\n

Smoke rising from the flames had reached right across the country on Tuesday, visible six states to the east, and cancelled flights hundreds of miles away.<\/p>\n

About 2,500 firefighters have fought the blaze, some coming in from as far away as New York.<\/p>\n

Their efforts have been hampered by winds of about 30mph (50km\/h), with gusts above 60mph (100km\/h), but on Thursday and Friday conditions appeared to ease.<\/p>\n

Officials have said evacuated residents of the towns Springerville and Eagar might be able to return home as early as Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

The Wallow fire is the second largest on record in Arizona – a blaze in 2002 burnt through 732 sq miles in the centre of the state.<\/p>\n

As well as Arizona, smoke is said to be visible in New Mexico, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado – where some municipal health departments have issued air-quality warnings.<\/p>\n

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