Nearly 4,000 acres were aflame Monday as the Central Fire burned outside of Phoenix, Arizona, adding to hundreds of thousands of acres already on fire in the nearby national forests.
The Central Fire erupted a week after the Bush Fire took root in the national forest, about 22 miles northeast of Mesa. The Bush Fire was about 42 percent contained Monday, with 184,086 acres reported to have been burned.
Both fires appear to have been caused by humans, according to InciWeb. Temperatures as high as 110 degrees have not been helpful in containing them.
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