Employees from Kitt Peak National Observatory are nervously watching the Contreras Fire. They had to quickly evacuate, leaving behind tens of millions of dollars of equipment.
"About noon on the radio, they said ‘We got a call for evacuation, we need everyone off the mountain in a couple hours,'” said Hoscheidt, Mountain Operations Supervisor.
“That was very stressful because we had the overhead crane out, we were moving big pieces of equipment so we divided and conquered,” Hoscheidt said. “My old boss passed away from cancer about a year ago, and he was the manager up there," Hoscheidt said."I didn’t want to let him down, I’ve been helping cover since he’s been gone. I didn’t want to let him down.”
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