Partial blue skies in the morning allowed many park visitors to ignore fires on the North Rim. By afternoon, ashfall made for a different story.

Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs on Saturday toured the destruction by the wildfire along the Grand Canyon’s North Rim, surveying what she called devastating damage.

Firefighters in Arizona were tackling two out-of-control wildfires in extreme heat on Tuesday — including one at the Grand Canyon National Park's North Rim that's forced evacuations, road closures and razed a historic lodge and other structures.