Wildfire News

Several elected leaders from northern Arizona are calling on Attorney General Kris Mayes to determine if the Trump administration’s cuts to wildfire mitigation efforts are illegal.

The cost of wildfire recovery on public lands mostly falls to agencies like the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service. Several western U.S. senators have requested more federal help after a devastating fire year.

Fire managers throughout northern Arizona conducted numerous prescribed burns Tuesday, creating visible smoke that impacted Flagstaff and other local communities.

Crews have now fully contained the Dragon Bravo Fire nearly three months after it was ignited by lightning near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.

Officials at Grand Canyon National Park will reopen two popular North Rim viewpoints next week that were closed because of the Dragon Bravo Fire.

The Dragon Bravo fire continues to burn in remote pockets of the park. Federal officials have not yet provided details on their response to lawmakers.

Kaibab National Forest officials have reopened 77,000 acres north of the Grand Canyon that was closed last month because of the White Sage and Dragon Bravo fires.

Grand Canyon National Park officials have reopened sections of the South Kaibab, Bright Angel and Tonto trails that were closed after the Dragon Bravo Fire exploded in size last month.

Officials with the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs say a wildfire that started last week at Camp Navajo west of Flagstaff is burning in an area that contains "conventional unexploded ordnance."

The Gila County Division of Emergency Management has ordered evacuations for three communities near the lightning-caused Washington Fire about 11 miles north of Payson.