Every wildfire has a name, and these days their names usually come from a distinctive geographic feature identified by the first firefighter on the scene. But this was not always the case. The stories behind these names appear in "Wildfire Names Always Tell a Story," which comes from www.azcentral.com.

• In 1984, firefighter Jan Rice was carrying a box of cheddar cheese crackers and named the fire he was fighting in Colorado, the Cheddar Cheese Fire.

• U.S. Forest Service employee Larry Klock named a 120,000-acre blaze running over the pine-covered foothills of the Pike National Forest of Denver the Hayman Fire after a ghost town in the area.

• Colorado's Storm King Fire is named after the mountain where it killed fourteen firefighters in 1994. The official name of this fire is the South Canyon Fire, and...