The Kaibab Lodge is outside the north entrance of the Grand Canyon National Park in the North Kaibab National Forest, 5 miles away from the park.

Forest managers repeatedly burned and thinned fuels across the zone that the Dragon Bravo Fire torched. But Grand Canyon treatments were years old.

To artist Bruce Aiken, who moved his family to the Grand Canyon in the 1970s, the North Rim fire is a devastating loss.