Two wildfires are burning near the Grand Canyon in Arizona, including one blaze that destroyed dozens of structures, among them the historic Grand Canyon Lodge, the National Park Service said.

U.S. land managers are racing the clock as hotter, drier weather raises the risk of wildfires in the nation’s overgrown forests with each passing year.

“It's tragic, it really is,” retired National Park Service chief historian Robert K. Sutton said Monday.