In the afternoon of Saturday June 13th 2020, a vehicle fire along AZ Route 87 lit off the “Bushfire” one of the largest wildfires in AZ history, burning over 186,000 acres at the time of this post. The close-knit communities of Tonto Basin, Punkin Center, Pioneer Pass, Brownsville, Slate Creek, Jake’s Corner, Sunflower have been evacuated. Recreation areas like Apache Lake, Sugarloaf ,Four Peaks , Lower Sycamore Recreation Area ,The Rolls, Pobrecito , Butcher Jones Recreation Area, Saguaro Del Norte , Saguaro Lake ,The Roosevelt Lake sites along Highway 188 north of Roosevelt Dam have been closed.