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Arizona wildfire forces fast decision: Fight or flee flames?

This photograph taken Tuesday, April 26, 2022, shows the hills above the Girls Ranch neighborhood outside Flagstaff, Ariz., blackened from a massive wildfire that swept through the area. The blaze that started Easter Sunday burned about 30 square miles and more than a dozen homes, hopscotching across the parched landscape. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca) Polly Velie stands outside her home north of Flagstaff, Ariz., Tuesday, April 26, 2022, looking out toward the property line where a massive wildfire swept through. The blaze that started on Easter Sunday burned about 30 square miles and more than a dozen homes, hopscotching across the parched landscape. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca) Fencing around a property known as Girls Ranch lies melted to the ground, Tuesday, April 26, 2022, after a massive wildfire swept through the outskirts of Flagstaff, Ariz. The blaze that started Easter Sunday burned about 30 square miles and more than a dozen homes, hopscotching across the parched landscape. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca) Harriet Young stands outside her home on the outskirts of Flagstaff, Ariz., Thursday, April 28, 2022. A massive wildfire that started Easter Sunday burned about 30 square miles and more than a dozen homes, hopscotching across the parched landscape. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca) Two packages sit in the driveway of the home that Jeanne and Mike Welnick owned outside Flagstaff, Ariz., on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. A massive wildfire that started Easter Sunday burned about 30 square miles and more than a dozen homes, hopscotching across the parched landscape. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca) This photograph taken Tuesday, April 26, 2022, shows a cherub statue with its eyes looking down at the debris from a massive wildfire that destroyed the home Jeanne and Mike Welnick owned outside Flagstaff, Ariz. A massive wildfire that started Easter Sunday burned about 30 square miles and more than a dozen homes, hopscotching across the parched landscape. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca) An all-terrain vehicle that was burned by a massive wildfire outside Flagstaff, Ariz., sits outside the home of Jeanne and Mike Welnick, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. The blaze that started Easter Sunday burned about 30 square miles and more than a dozen homes, hopscotching across the parched landscape. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca) A line of Ponderosa pine trees and homes sit between an empty lot and hillsides, Tuesday, April 26,2022, outside Flagstaff, Ariz. A massive wildfire that started Easter Sunday burned about 30 square miles and more than a dozen homes, hopscotching across the parched landscape. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca) This photograph taken Tuesday, April 26, 2022, shows the erratic nature of a wildfire that destroyed the home of Jeanne and Mike Welnick outside Flagstaff, Ariz., but spared other areas of their property. The blaze that started Easter Sunday burned about 30 square miles and more than a dozen homes, hopscotching across the parched landscape. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca) Jeanne Welnick stands amid the ruins of her home on the outskirts of Flagstaff, Ariz., Thursday, April 28, 2022. A massive wildfire that started Easter Sunday burned about 30 square miles and more than a dozen homes, hopscotching across the parched landscape. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca) In this photograph taken Tuesday, April 26, 2022, outside Flagstaff, Ariz., Bill Velie displays a shirt that points to his career running a bulldozer to help contain wildfires. A massive wildfire that started Easter Sunday burned about 30 square miles and more than a dozen homes, hopscotching across the parched landscape. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca) This photograph taken Tuesday, April 26, 2022, shows hillsides and trees blackened by a massive wildfire in the Girls Ranch neighborhood outside Flagstaff, Ariz. The blaze that started Easter Sunday burned about 30 square miles and more than a dozen homes, hopscotching across the parched landscape. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)