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Powerful thunderstorms caused widespread flooding across Flagstaff Wednesday. Highway 180 was temporarily closed due to flooding across the road coming from the recent Pipeline Fire scar. Emergency sirens were activated in east Flagstaff for areas below the Museum Fire scar.
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The City of Flagstaff has declared a State of Emergency due to the impacts of monsoon flooding in areas affected by this summer’s Pipeline Fire. The Coconino Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the immediate transfer of $5 million from the General Fund’s emergency reserve to the County’s Flood Control District to address the ongoing costs of flood response and mitigation.
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The Coconino National Forest is evaluating a proposal that would remove more than 1,600 dead and dying trees along Highway 89 in the burn areas of the recent Pipeline and Tunnel Fires.
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Transportation officials closed Highway 89 in both directions north of Flagstaff Thursday because of flooding from heavy monsoon rain.
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The man arrested for burning toilet paper near the suspected start of the Pipeline Fire in Flagstaff pleaded guilty Wednesday to several charges.
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The Coconino County Flood Control district will hold a meeting this Thursday, July 14, 2022, to discuss flood mitigation in Flagstaff’s Doney Park neighborhood. The meeting starts at 6:30. p.m. at the Cromer Elementary School gym.
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Coconino County’s Flood Control District is making an urgent request for volunteers to help fill and place sandbags in neighborhoods below recent wildfires to mitigate the threat of post-fire flooding.
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Coconino National Forest officials say more than 80% of the Haywire Fire northeast of Flagstaff burned at a low soil severity with only about 1% burning at a high severity.
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The Flagstaff area this year has endured two large and devastating wildfires in short succession: April’s Tunnel Fire and then the Pipeline Fire that began almost three weeks ago. KNAU's Ryan Heinsius talks to Coconino National Forest Flagstaff District Ranger Matt McGrath about what might need to change in how area public lands are managed in order to prevent another fire on the San Francisco Peaks.
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A burned area emergency response team has finished assessing damage to soils from the Pipeline Fire. They found that more than half of the 26,500-acre blaze burned at a low severity for soils, but that some more heavily impacted areas pose increased dangers.