AP:  Springerville, AZ - An eye stinging, throat burning haze of smoke spewing from a gigantic wildfire in eastern Arizona is beginning to stretch as far east as central New Mexico, prompting health officials to warn residents as far as Albuquerque about potential respiratory hazards.  The 672 square mile blaze was no longer just an Arizona problem on Saturday as firefighters moved to counter spot fires sprouting up across the state line and lighting their own fires to beat it back.  The forest fire remained largely uncontained and officials warned that the return of gusty southwesterly winds during the afternoon could once again threaten small mountain communities that had been largely saved just a few days ago.  Levels of tiny sooty particles from the smoke in eastern Arizona were nearly 20 times the federal health standard on Saturday.  The good news was that was down from roughly 40 times higher a day earlier, but it was all at the mercy of the ever-changing winds.  "Sunday could get even worse," said Mark Shaffer of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.  "Things got better, but they are still bad," Shaffer said Saturday.  "The microscopic particles, about 1/28th the width of a human hair, can get lodged in the lungs and cause serious health problems, both immediate and long-term," Shaffer said.  "Larger particles you breathe in and you cough and it seems to get rid of it," he said, adding that the tiny particles get "very, very deep into your system and are very difficult to expel."  Shaffer said the forecast for Sunday was "pretty scary."  More than 30 homes have been destroyed since May 29, thousands of residents have fled communities and the blaze posed a potential danger to two major power lines that bring electricity from Arizona to West Texas, although officials said Saturday they had so far been able to protect the routes.  In Greer, a smoky haze clung to fields, graying out the sky, and scattered plumes of smoke rose from the forest where spot fires persist.  The fire is the second largest in state history.  

 My Comments:   There is no end in sight yet for the second largest fire in Arizona's history.  This, and the fires in Russia, bring this scripture to mind:  Acts 2:19, "I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath; blood, fire and vapor of smoke."  With birds dropping dead by the thousands, fish dying by the millions, wars and bloodshed throughout the Middle East and parts of Africa, and now record breaking fires; you must know that the coming of the Lord is near, even at the door.  The greatest question yet is, are you ready to meet God and face eternity, because that is just around the corner.