MUSEUM FIRE FLOOD AREA

Flagstaff city officials will hold a public meeting Thursday, August 31, 2023, for residents of the Grandview, Paradise and Sunnyside neighborhoods who were impacted by post-wildfire flooding in the Spruce Wash/Museum Fire area.

The City of Flagstaff will test its East Side flood alert sirens on Thursday morning. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny reports, the siren’s warning message will now broadcast in Navajo as well as English and Spanish.

Flagstaff officials have adjusted the amount of monsoon rainfall that would trigger an emergency flooding alert on the city’s east side.

The Flagstaff City Council on Tuesday is set to give an update on mitigation efforts in the Museum Fire flood area on the city’s east side.

City of Flagstaff officials are reminding residents in the Museum Fire flood area that the threat of flash flooding still exists despite extensive mitigation put in place in the last year.

The City of Flagstaff will end its Museum Fire flood area sandbag efforts in the coming weeks throughout the Sunnyside and Grandview neighborhoods.

A new emergency siren will alert residents of east Flagstaff of imminent flash floods from the Museum Fire scar. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny reports, the system was tested for the first time today.

Local officials on Friday will test a siren designed to alert people in the Museum Fire flood area including the Grandview Homes and Sunnyside areas.

Work crews in the Museum Fire burn area north of Flagstaff are working to shore up flood mitigation measures ahead of this year’s monsoon season. One project that recently began is designed to reduce the amount of sediment moved by rainfall.

The city of Flagstaff this week began construction work to improve drainage in neighborhoods within the Museum Fire flood zone.