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Authorities shut off access to Oak Creek Canyon, a popular northern Arizona recreation area due a forest fire on Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Hundreds of firefighters poured into the canyon to battle the wind-whipped blaze. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)

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Coconino National Forest Battalion Chief Preston Mercer, left, and fire information officer Bill Morse, right, survey a fire burning in Oak Creek Canyon, Ariz., on Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Hundreds of firefighters poured into northern Arizona to battle the wind-whipped blaze. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)

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A wildfire burning in Oak Creek Canyon in northern Arizona has forced people out of the popular recreation area on Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Hundreds of firefighters were battling the wind-whipped blaze. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)

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ADVANCE FOR USE TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2014, AND THEREAFTER- In this May 7, 2014 photo, roses bloom in the drought-tolerant garden at the Hacienda Carmel Retirement Community in Carmel, Calif. California’s 19th-century water laws give about 4,000 companies, farms and others unmonitored water while the state is mired in a three-year drought that has forced water cutbacks to cities and the nation’s agricultural center. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)