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The Interior Department will allocate more than 10 million dollars in federal funds to reduce wildfire risk on about 10,000 acres in Arizona.
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Climate change and extreme drought are causing fires to burn bigger, hotter and spread faster than ever before, producing new dangers and upending life for thousands. And now the burn scars left behind are causing flooding in neighborhoods that previously weren’t flood prone. All this is taking a huge toll on some Flagstaff residents who live under the constant strain of threats brought on by monsoon storms, and whose neighborhoods, in some cases, are nearly unlivable.
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A new study from Northern Arizona University shows thinning and regular prescribed burns can help ponderosa pine forests survive both drought and wildfire. The work took place at a thirty-year-old research site on the Fort Valley Experimental Forest north of Flagstaff. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny spoke with ecologist Andrew Sánchez Meador about the findings.
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Fire officials say crews have successfully contained every part of the Committee Fire accessible by ground crews.
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A wildfire burning on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park has grown to approximately 85 acres. The lightning-caused blaze began July 17 and is being allowed to “fulfill its natural role in a fire-dependent ecosystem”, according to the National Park Service.
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The Committee Fire burning east of Sedona is now 14% contained. Officials with the Kaibab National Forest reported two new lightning-caused starts Thursday morning, one on Bill Williams Mountain, the other on Sitgreaves Mountain.
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Fire managers at Grand Canyon National Park say a lightning-caused wildfire on the North Rim has grown to 85 acres.
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Fire managers say there’s been no new recent growth of the Committee Fire burning on steep cliffs east of Sedona.
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Fire managers on the Coconino National Forest say a wildfire burning east of Sedona has grown to about 300 acres.
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Crews are responding to a wildfire east of Sedona on the back side of Munds Mountain.