Emergency Bulletins

Palo Verde Generating Station emergency notification testing
11/18/2024 - 10:35 am
Palo Verde Generating Station | PVGS | outdoor warning sirens | local agencies | state agencies | 10-mile radius | power plant | Maricopa County | Wireless Emergency Alerts | WEA | siren test | November 20 | 12:00 p.m. | 12:15 p.m. | 12:30 p.m. | three minutes | 70 sirens | emergency managers | Alert and Notification System | federal regulations | Nuclear Regulatory Commission | NRC | Federal Emergency Management Agency | FEMA | WEA system | test area | opt-in phones | test alerts | Maricopa County Wireless Emergency Alert System | emergency | public actions | Maricopa County Department of Emergency Management | Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office | Arizona Department of Public Safety | alerting sirens | radios | televisions | Emergency Alert System | EAS message | emergency instructions

On Wednesday, November 20, Palo Verde Generating Station (PVGS), in cooperation with local and State agencies, will test the outdoor warning sirens located within a 10-mile radius of the power plant. In conjunction with the siren test and in the same 10-mile radius, Maricopa County will conduct an opt-in Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA).

Testing will involve activating the sirens twice and WEA once, sirens will be activated at 12:00 p.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. for approximately three minutes each time.  The Opt-in WEA will be tested at 12:15 p.m. Individuals will be stationed at each...

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Deadline Approaching in California for SBA Disaster Loans for property damage due to the Airport Fire
11/18/2024 - 9:11 am
SBA | southeast | recovery | rebuild | Hurricanes Helene | Hurricanes Milton | Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman | small businesses | local economies | disaster funding | physical damage | inventory | equipment | revenues | recovery centers | customer service specialists | disaster loan application | financial relief | Francisco Sánchez Jr. | Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience | Small Business Administration | California | Dec. 17 deadline | Airport Fire | Riverside County | Sept. 9-Oct. 6 | property damage | Imperial County | Orange County | San Bernardino County | San Diego County | La Paz County | Arizona | businesses | private nonprofit organizations | homeowners | renters | federal disaster loans | real estate | machinery | business assets | Economic Injury Disaster Loans | agricultural cooperatives | aquaculture | working capital needs | July 18 | 2025 deadline | mitigation | future damage | contractors | mitigation professionals | proactive improvements | personal

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Avian Influenza detected
11/15/2024 - 2:03 pm
Poultry | commercial farm | Pinal County | Avian Influenza | clinical signs | November 11 | 2024 | Arizona Veterinary Diagnostic Lab | AZVDL | preliminary determination | National Veterinary Services Laboratory | NVSL | confirmation | eggs | food supply | Safety | quality | Arizona Department of Agriculture | AZDA | supply chain | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC | risk | general public | commercial farm workers | daily care | husbandry | protective actions | monitoring | CDC website | Arizona Department of Health Services | ADHS | local health departments | public health guidance | Nicole Witt | Assistant Director of Preparedness | quarantine | AZDA Director | AZDA State Veterinarian | biosecurity measures | virus elimination | sanitation responses | consumer protection | Sick Bird Hotline | USDA | cooperative extension office | local veterinarian | State Veterinarian | wild bird illness | Arizona Game and Fish Department

Poultry at a commercial farm located in Pinal County have tested positive for Avian Influenza. When the poultry began showing clinical signs consistent with avian influenza on November 11, 2024, samples from the location were submitted to the Arizona Veterinary Diagnostic Lab (AZVDL) for preliminary determination, then submitted to the National Veterinary Services Laboratory (NVSL) for confirmation. Eggs produced after the onset of illness have not entered the food supply. Consumers in Arizona and around the nation can remain confident in the safety and quality of eggs and egg products....

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Pile burning planned November 12 to December 31, 2024 in the Prescott Basin
11/08/2024 - 12:07 pm
prescribed burn | pile burn | smoke | Bradshaw Ranger District | Prescott Basin | Arizona Department of Environmental Quality | ADEQ

Fire Managers on the Bradshaw Ranger District plan to take advantage of the fall-like conditions and burn piles of debris in and around the Prescott Basin. (See the map below.) Ignitions are planned to start on Tuesday, November 12, and continue through the end of the year as favorable weather conditions allow. Fire managers expect smoke impacts to be light and visible from multiple locations including Prescott, Chino Valley, and surrounding areas. Pile burning helps to reduce hazardous fuels in the wildland urban interface and increases ecosystem and community resilience.

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SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans available to Arizona small businesses
11/07/2024 - 2:23 pm
Small Business Administration | SBA | Low-interest federal disaster loans | disaster recovery

Small nonfarm businesses in six Arizona counties and neighboring counties in California, Nevada and Utah, are now eligible to apply for low‑interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Francisco Sánchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Business Administration. These loans offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by drought in the following primary counties that began Sept. 10.

  • Primary Arizona counties:  La Paz and Mohave;
  • Neighboring Arizona counties:  ...
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