TAOS — Bobbie Scopa recalled the days when a 12,000-acre wildfire was still considered a big deal.

She was a 19-year-old, rookie wildland firefighter with the National Forest Service the year she first saw a wildfire that size. It was 1974, and she and a dozen other firefighters had been called to dig line in the Huachuca Mountains near Sierra Vista in southern Arizona.

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