Wildfires
Goodyear says it’s the first city in the Southwest to invest in technology that thoroughly decontaminates firefighters’ equipment.
Sep. 2, 2021
PG&E said it plans to bury around 10,000 miles of power lines. The utility said it’s the “largest effort in the U.S. to underground power lines as a wildfire risk reduction measure.”
Sep. 2, 2021
Huge gaps between air quality sensors in the western U.S. have created blind spots in the warning system for wildfire smoke plumes sweeping North America this summer.
Aug. 27, 2021
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s office has issued an emergency declaration to address post-wildfire flooding in Coconino County. In July, the Flagstaff area was hit with heavy rains, which resulted in flooding, and prompted the governor to declare a state of emergency.
Aug. 25, 2021
The Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management is accepting grant applications for landowners whose property was damaged during this summer’s wildfire season. House Bill 2001, the emergency funding passed during the state legislature’s special wildfire session in June, includes $10 million to repair infrastructure for public and private landowners.
Aug. 20, 2021
Officials called it a 200- to 500-year rain event, unlikely even at the lower end. But it fell on the burn scar from the 2019 Museum Fire. It flooded a school and dozens of homes. Some areas saw 4 inches of rain.
Aug. 18, 2021
During Arizona’s peak wildfire season, the state’s Department of Forestry and Fire Management puts restrictions in place to prevent campers from accidentally starting fires. Through KJZZ's Q&AZ project, a listener asked: Where in Arizona can I have a campfire when I am tent camping?
Aug. 15, 2021
New research looked at one watershed in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in eastern California to see how climate change interacts with plants and the other vegetation that can become fuel for wildfires.
Aug. 10, 2021
The U.S. Senate is drawing closer to voting on a $1 trillion infrastructure bill brokered in part by Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Sen. Sinema released a video discussing what the package would mean for Arizonans, including how the bill would help Arizona through its long drought.
Aug. 8, 2021
Saguaro National Park will resume aerial spraying for buffelgrass on the park’s eastern Rincon Mountain section this month.
Aug. 4, 2021
A research team at the Desert Research Institute in Nevada is connecting the dots between two events plaguing the West: COVID-19 vulnerability and wildfires.
Jul. 30, 2021
Apart from bringing much-needed water to the state, recent monsoon activity has also helped to extinguish major wildfires. Dolores Garcia with the Bureau of Land Management in Arizona said those fires that are burning are not sizeable.
Jul. 26, 2021
With the number of fires throughout the state dwindling, the Tonto National Forest has lifted Stage 1 restrictions put in place on May 14.
Jul. 21, 2021
Gov. Doug Ducey issued a declaration of emergency on Friday in response to flash flooding in Coconino County. Ducey’s declaration opens the use of $200,000 worth of state funds to the county.
Jul. 16, 2021
Monday night a wildfire was reported in the northwest corner of Arizona near the borders with Utah and Nevada, and it grew thousands of acres overnight.
Jul. 14, 2021
Although the arrival of the monsoon has given Arizona a reprieve from major wildfires, it has also brought lightning, which means firefighters are still busy.
Jul. 12, 2021
A large swath of the West baked during the weekend in triple-digit temperatures that were expected to continue into the start of the work week.
Jul. 12, 2021
Two firefighters died Saturday after a aircraft they were in to respond to a wildfire crashed in Mohave County, Arizona, local media reported.
The Arizona Bureau of Land Management told KPHO-TV that the aircraft helping perform aerial reconnaissance and command and control over the Cedar Basin Fire burning near Wikieup.
Jul. 11, 2021
Arizona experiences both monsoon season and wildfire season at the same time, and flooding caused by fire damage can leave highways in dangerous conditions.
Those areas are more susceptible to flooding during monsoon season, which can leave highways covered with mud and other hazardous debris.
Jul. 9, 2021
The wildfires burning in Arizona and in other parts of the West can be extremely dangerous — especially for people whose homes and properties are in the path of the flames.
Firefighters who step in to stop them are also putting themselves in harm’s way in the moment — and months and years in the future as well.
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