Payson

The Tonto National Forest in coordination with federal, state, and local partners will terminate the current Stage 1 Fire Restrictions effective July 21, 2021 at 8 a.m. due to reduced fire danger.

The restrictions were implemented to reduce the risk of human-caused wildfires during periods of high fire danger and elevated fire weather conditions.

There will be a community meeting tomorrow, Saturday, June 26, 2021, 5:30 pm, at the Expedition Church, 301 S. Colcord Rd, Payson Arizona. The meeting is open to the public and live streamed on the Incident Facebook Page   

Fires have closed State Route 277 between State Route 377 and Heber, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation.

Additionally, State Route 377 northbound has reopened for evacuations between Heber-Overgaard to Holbrook, but southbound lanes remain closed.

There are two new closures on State Route 260: Westbound lanes are closed at milepost 322 and eastbound lanes are closed at milepost 292.

All of these closures are caused by wildfires.

Attention Gila County Residents:

We are pleased to announce that all appointments have been filled for our Payson Drive-thru Vaccine Clinic, being held this weekend at the Payson High School - 409 W. Longhorn Rd., Payson, AZ 85541.
If you were unable to schedule a vaccine appointment for this event, you can contact our Northern Gila County community health partners for scheduling vaccine appointments:

Banner Health Clinic Payson - 117 E. Main St., Suite A100, Payson AZ 85541

Due to the winter weather events across the U.S. preventing the shipment of the Moderna vaccine, the Gila County Health Department has postponed the Payson COVID 19 vaccination drive-thru clinic on February 20th-21st to the following weekend, February 27-28th.

Gila County Public Health will be conducting a COVID 19 vaccination drive-thru clinic on February 20th-21st by appointment only at the Payson High School football field parking lot. Due to the great work our partnership are doing in Northern Gila County in getting vaccines out to the priority Groups 1A, 1B, and 65 years and older, this weekend clinic has additional appointments available and will be open to all Gila County residents. 

Firefighters on the Payson Ranger District will be conducting several pile burns throughout the week of Feb. 15, 2021.

The purpose of these burns is to reduce the potential and severity of a wildfire for the safety of the public and the protection of natural resources. The following prescription pile burns are planned for:

Thanks to the dedicated hard work from: Command Solutions 4, Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center, Banner Health Clinic Payson, Mogollon Health Alliance and Kenny Evans, Ponderosa Family Care, Genoa Pharmacy, Hope Family Care, Arizona National Guard, and all of the enthusiastic community volunteers and CERT members, Gila County is once again one of the top performing counties in vaccinating our population. Due to all the hard work on behalf of Gila County, we have received increased vaccination doses each week.