The Dragon Bravo Fire on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon has grown to more than 140,000 acres, with firefighters anticipating a short reprieve from extreme fire weather, state and federal officials said.

As of Aug. 9, the blaze was mapped at 141,147 acres and was 36% contained, according to the Southwest Complex Incident Management Team 2 on InciWeb, the federal wildfire tracking site.

The growth made the Dragon Bravo Fire the seventh largest wildfire in Arizona history and the largest fire currently burning in the United States, according to data from the National Interagency Fire Center .

Despite wind gusts of up to 52 mph the previous day intensifying the blaze, crews were able to maintain containment lines along most of its perimeter, the team said.

Firefighters remain in “fu

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