LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Wildfires have consumed as much as 607 square miles, making it the second largest ever wildfire in Arizona. The flames could reach power lines as soon as Friday, leaving hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in New Mexico and Texas with rolling blackouts.

Crews are holding out hopes that the weather will slow the progression of the fire. After days of driving winds, there are no high-wind warnings issued for today. Fire officials remain mindful they have a long fight ahead of them.

"Don't get complacent just because we don't have a red flag warning. Ten to 15 mph winds are good winds to drive fire, especially through grass, so we're going to have to be very careful," fire information officer Jim Whittington said at a briefing in Springerville.

Springerville residents, along with the neighboring community of Eagar were evacuated earlier this week as a spot fire popped up on the northwestern edge of the Wallow Fire. An eerie orange haze hung over town as cars streamed away from the pillar of smoke that was steadily closing in. Officials worried about the prospect of the fire hooking around a bulldozer line and a burned out area and racing toward town.

The Wallow fire has blackened nearly 389,000 acres since it began on May 29. Due to high winds and bone-dry terrain, the fire is zero percent contained, meaning firefighters had not even begun to hem it in, much less get it under control.

Ferocious 35 mile per hour winds was kicking embers as far as three miles past the edge of the main blaze. Smoke was visible as far away as Wyoming.

The blaze may have been sparked by an unattended campfire, tore through the evacuated town of Greer on Wednesday, forcing firefighters to flee. Officials won't know the extent of the damage until later.

Some area residents are bound and determined to stay put. One holdout, 46-year-old Adam Widlowski was buying soda and cigarettes at the Springerville Circle K so he could hunker down in his trailer and wait out the fire. Almost all the other trailers, and the businesses around them, were dark. The only vehicles were sheriff's cruisers and U.S. Forest Service trucks.

"I feel like the only person on Earth," Widlowski says.