Buckeye Fire Department crews were fighting a brush fire in the river bottom at Hazen and Rooks roads in Buckeye, Arizona, on Tuesday, a difficult-to-reach blaze that had grown to about six acres.
Rayne Gray said the fire was "approximately six acres and difficult to access" and added that there were "no immediate reports of exposures at this time."
The fire was drawing help from several West Valley departments, including Goodyear crews, who were among the agencies assigned to the incident, according to Nick Lyons. There were no evacuations in the area at the time of the report.
The setting matters because river bottom fires can be hard to reach and harder to contain quickly, and that is what made this one a live response rather than a routine brush call. For now, the question is not whether the fire is moving through a populated area; it is whether crews can pin it down before the dry terrain gives it more room to spread.