Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Sawmill Fire (2017)

Sawmill Fire (2017)

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/September 24, 2022 by Wehwalt (talk) 21:00, 12 August 2022 (UTC)



The Sawmill Fire was a wildfire that burned almost 47,000 acre of the U.S. state of Arizona. It began on April 23, 2017, at a gender reveal party held in the Coronado National Forest with the detonation by gunshot of a target packed with blue powder and tannerite. Because of hot and arid conditions in the area, the fire spread rapidly and forced the closure of Arizona State Route 89 and Interstate 10 and the evacuation of 100 people. By April 30, the fire was fully contained and evacuation orders were lifted. No injuries or fatalities resulted from the fire, which cost $8,200,000 and required the deployment of over 800 first responders to contain and suppress. No buildings were destroyed by the fire, though the historic Empire Ranch was as little as 50 ft from the flames at times. When the source of the fire became public knowledge, it resulted in widespread ridicule of gender reveal parties in concept and practice. 📝 "Don't get complacent..." 09:58, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Most recent similar article(s): The last time a wildfire was on the front page as our daily Featured was Blackwater Fire of 1937, in 2013.
 * Main editors: Just me,.
 * Promoted: June 27, 2022
 * Reasons for nomination: Been a while. Here is a rarity at TFA: wildfires. Wildfires resulting from ridiculous circumstances, even. This was promoted to FA earlier this year, but it only just now occurred to me to nominate it for TFA.
 * Support as nominator. – ♠Vamí _IV†♠  04:51, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. Quite the outrageous tale, which would be more than a welcome sight for the main page. Great work on the article. Though uh you may wanna add the wikilink for the bolded article name ‍ ‍ Your Power 🐍 ‍  ‍ 💬 "What did I tell you?"
 * Done. Hadn't occurred to me to add that. – ♠Vamí _IV†♠  11:01, 23 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Support truflip99 (talk) 18:02, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Support Edwininlondon (talk) 15:42, 9 August 2022 (UTC)