New York Times: Firefighters across Arizona and New Mexico battled 31 wildfires on Wednesday, their efforts complicated by a relentless heat wave and bone-dry conditions. And in the Angeles National Forest, on the northern edge of Los Angeles, two fires kept more than 300 families from their homes as the fires threatened to merge into one.
Other fires ignited in Colorado and Utah, threatening homes, closing roads and stoking the zero-sum competition for finite resources firefighters and the airplanes and helicopters...