Desert Brush Fire Threatens Town

Some 500 firefighters labored in 110-degree heat Sunday to head off a desert brush fire threatening a small town.

The blaze had burned across 14,000 acres since it began Friday, and barely missed a golf course and million-dollar homes. It was 15 percent contained Sunday with full containment not expected until Tuesday night at the earliest.

By Sunday afternoon, the flames were within a mile of Fountain Hills, a 20-year-old town of about 20,000 people, many of them retirees, built around an artificial lake northeast of this Phoenix suburb.

No evacuations had been ordered.