Helicopters were utilized this afternoon to help extinguish hot spots. There was some smoke off of the fire today as winds picked up and increased fire activity briefly. Operations reports the lines are holding well, with some interior flareups due to - and expected - unburned pockets of fuel. "Hand crews focused on working the hot edges and securing up containment line ensuring it will hold during the afternoon winds. Officials with the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management said on Wednesday the fire stayed within its footprint overnight, with no additional movement or growth, but hot, dry and breezy conditions forecast for Thursday may cook up some activity in the afternoon. Scottsdale reported that nearly 100-plus homes had been evacuated, affecting at its peak about 1,145 people. Early Wednesday, fire officials calculated the fire had consumed an estimated 2,500 acres.Īccording to InciWeb, Diamond impacted multiple homes and forced evacuations by Scottsdale police. Tuesday, near 130th Street and Ranch Gate Road. The Diamond Fire began as a brush fire at about 5:15 p.m. The agency said investigators believed the fire to have been human-caused, but added that it would not say what the source of the fire's ignition was due to the ongoing investigation. The agency said the fire had now been 93% contained, and remained at 1,960 acres - a smaller figure than before thanks to more accurate mapping. Wednesday, while urging residents to remain cautious as they returned home. He is regularly by Trump’s side, even traveling in Trump’s motorcade to the Miami courthouse for their appearance earlier this month and accompanying him afterwards to a stop at the city’s famed Cuban restaurant Versailles, where he helped usher supporters eager to take selfies with the former president.As crews continue to contain the Diamond Fire in north Scottsdale, the Arizona Department of Forestry lifted evacuation orders just after 7 p.m. Nauta is a Navy veteran who fetched Trump’s Diet Cokes as his valet at the White House before joining him as a personal aide at Mar-a-Lago. That, prosecutors said, resulted in a false representation to the Justice Department that a “diligent search” for classified documents had been done and that all documents responsive to a subpoena had been returned. Prosecutors allege that Nauta, at the former president’s direction, moved boxes of documents bearing classification markings so that they would not be found by a Trump lawyer who was tasked with searching the home for classified records to be returned to the government. The indictment accuses Nauta of conspiring with Trump to conceal records that he had taken with him from the White House after this term ended in January 2021. Nauta’s arraignment was postponed to give him time to find a Florida-based lawyer. Trump pleaded not guilty earlier this month to 37 counts related to the alleged mishandling of classified documents kept at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Nauta was charged earlier this month alongside Trump in a 38-count indictment filed by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith.
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