Wildfire Destroys Buildings at Grand Canyon’s North Rim

Several historic building were lost in the Dragon Bravo Fire raging at the Grand Canyon in Colorado. Kurt Repanshek for the National Park Traveler reports:

A wildfire fanned by winds gusting to 40 mph destroyed the historic Grand Canyon Lodge and surrounding cabins at Grand Canyon National Park, where the North Rim had been closed to the public since last week due to another fire.

This is super sad, I stayed in these cabins back in 2017 when I ran R2R2R, my first really big adventure runs.

Important add-on to this story:

“Arizona governor calls for probe into federal handling of Grand Canyon fire“, The Hill is reporting:

The Arizona governor called upon the federal government to “first take aggressive action to end the wildfire and prevent further damage.”

“But Arizonans deserve answers for how this fire was allowed to decimate the Grand Canyon National Park,” [Katie Hobbs -D] said.

I’m sure this will go well.