Weather intensifies wildfires in the southwestern United States

ArabiaWeather.com- Strong winds over southwestern Arizona have hampered the work of firefighters who are responding to a fire covering 3,700 acres, sparked by a lightning bolt on June 29.

And a number of forest fires intensified in the southwestern United States yesterday, Saturday, which destroyed dozens of homes and forced the authorities to evacuate residents, according to "Reuters".

A fire in the sparsely populated, forested town of Timbron, New Mexico, has charred about 270 acres, destroyed 44 homes and damaged or destroyed 24 additional structures since it ignited on Wednesday, according to the information site InceWeb.

A spokesman for the Colorado State Fire Brigade confirmed that residents of about 140 homes had to flee from the flames in Fremont County, about 105 km southwest of Colorado Springs.