Prescribed burns

Officials with the Kaibab National Forest and Grand Canyon National Park say crews will begin several prescribed burns near the North Rim this week.

The Brigade Fire is estimated to be seven acres in size and began Saturday. Fire managers say it was caused by a lightning strike.

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Fire crews will continue multiple prescribed burns on the Coconino and Kaibab national forests today. Prescribed burns are common during the spring due to favorable conditions like moist soil, dry material and cooler temperatures.

Fire managers on the Coconino National Forest conducted a third and final day of a 4,600-acre prescribed burn project about five miles south of Flagstaff Friday.

Fire crews with the Coconino National Forest are continuing a 2,700-acre prescribed burn Thursday five miles south of Flagstaff.

The Coconino National Forest’s Mogollon Rim Ranger District will manage a lightning-caused wildfire that sparked earlier this week in an area already scheduled for a prescribed burn.

Coconino National Forest managers will pick up multiple prescribed burns on the Flagstaff and Mogollon Rim Ranger districts this week.

The Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management continued work on a prescribed burn project near Flagstaff Tuesday.