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Prescribed Fire Activity Planned on the Alpine Ranger District
10/28/2024 - 4:33 pm
Prescribed Fire | smoke | Alpine Ranger District | Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests | Loco Knoll burn | Arizona Department of Environmental Quality | ADEQ

Fire managers plan to conduct prescribed fire operations on the Alpine Ranger District of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests beginning November 1 through November 30, 2024, as weather and vegetation conditions allow for successful operations.

The Loco Knoll burn unit is 6,695 acres and is approximately 12 miles southeast of Springerville, 11 miles northeast of Alpine, and on the north side of Escudilla mountain.  The project area boundaries are east of the no named two track road next to White Mountain Acres subdivision, south of Forest Service Road (FSR) 275B and constructed...

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Prescribed fires planned November 3 - 29 on the Verde Ranger District
10/28/2024 - 4:23 pm
Prescribed Fire | smoke | Verde Ranger District | Prescott National Forest | Crater prescribed fire | Grapevine prescribed fire | Strawberry prescribed fire | Mingus Mountain area

Fire managers on the Verde Ranger District plan to use ground and aerial resources to treat fuels at two locations in the Mingus Mountain area between Sunday, November 3 and Friday, November 29. 

Descriptions:

  • Crater RX (T14N, R3E, Sec 19,20,21,28,29,30,31,32,33) – is a 2,805 acre burn, two miles north of HWY 169, four miles northwest of I-17, and one mile south of Cherry. Vegetation is primarily brush and grass, with small areas of juniper and ponderosa pine.
  • Grapevine/Strawberry RX (T14N, R2E, Sec 2,3,4,8,9,10,12,13,14,15,16) –...
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Fire managers considering managing lightning-caused fire south of Flagstaff
10/28/2024 - 2:00 pm
Coconino National Forest | Smith Fire | lightning-caused wildfire | October 25 | Flagstaff | Interstate 17 | Newman Park exit | 55 acres | Scott Fire burn scar | low rate of spread | forest health | hazardous forest fuels | southwest winds | Hicks Fire | Clints Well | West Clear Creek | wildfire suppression | smoke visibility | Fire Management | Inciweb | prescribed burn projects | October 28.

Fire managers with the Coconino National Forest are currently monitoring a lightning-caused wildfire that was reported the morning of October 25 approximately 11 miles south of Flagstaff on the west side of Interstate 17 near the Newman Park exit.

The Smith Fire is currently 55 acres within the burn scar of the Scott Fire of 2023 and moving at a low rate of...

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Hickey Fire starts on Clifton Ranger District
10/25/2024 - 3:47 pm
Hickey Fire | lightning-caused wildfire | Clifton Ranger District | October 22 | 2024 | 35 acres | Morenci Mine | Martinez Ranch | San Francisco River | Forest Road 215 | rugged terrain | helicopter access | values at risk | smoke visibility | Juan Miller Road | Forest Road 475 | Highway 191 | Air Quality | AirNow | A-S National Forests | wildfire response.

The Hickey fire is a lightning caused wildfire discovered on the Clifton Ranger District on October 22, 2024.  The fire is currently estimated to be approximately 35 acres, and is located 10 miles north/northeast of the Morenci Mine, 5 miles southeast of the Martinez Ranch/San Francisco River, and West of Forest Road 215.   

The Hickey Fire is in a rugged, remote portion of the district accessed only by helicopter.  Local fire managers are evaluating values at risk in the vicinity and are taking action to protect them from adverse effects of the fire.  

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Deadline approaching in Arizona for SBA working capital loans due to drought
10/25/2024 - 8:35 am
Francisco Sánchez Jr. | Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience | Small Business Administration | SBA federal disaster loan | economic injury | Nov. 25 deadline | low-interest loans | drought | Arizona counties | Apache | cochise | Coconino | Gila | Graham | Greenlee | Maricopa | Navajo | Pima | Pinal | Santa Cruz | Yavapai | La Paz | Mohave | Yuma | Colorado | Montezuma | New Mexico | Catron | Cibola | Grant | Hidalgo | McKinley | San Juan | Utah | Kane | Economic Injury Disaster Loans | working capital | fixed debts | payroll | nonfarm businesses | agricultural cooperatives | aquaculture | nonprofits | interest rate | repayment | agricultural disaster declaration | Farm Services Agency | USDA | March 25 declaration | SBA disaster assistance.

Francisco Sánchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Business Administration, today reminded small nonfarm businesses in 15 Arizona counties and neighboring counties in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah of the Nov. 25 deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low-interest loans are to offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by drought in the following primary counties that began Jan. 1.

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