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McCall smokejumpers work night shift operations on the Mangum Fire June 22, 2020. The quick moving fire burned 71,450 acres on the Kaibab Plateau. The fire threatened to run through the Jacob Lake area. (Photo/Kaibab National Forest/Mike McMillan)

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WILLIAMS, Ariz. — In the summer of 2020, the largest fire in the history of Kaibab National Forest tore through the ponderosa pine forests above the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, causing the evacuation of the Jacob Lake and North Rim communities, threatening several homes and other structures and eventually burning over 70,000 acres of ponderosa and pinyon-juniper habitat.

By Wendy Howell March 30, 2021