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Flagstaff scientists and engineers are developing a plan to launch a network of wildfire-detecting satellites into space. They’re now semifinalists in a global competition.
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The Coconino County Flood Control District will present a pair of studies to its Board of Directors Tuesday that forecast the risks of post-wildfire floods in the Rio de Flag watershed in Flagstaff.
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A new study found extreme heat and wildfire smoke on their own are harmful to the human body, but the combination increases damage to people’s hearts and respiratory systems.
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A new study from Northern Arizona University found redwood trees burned by wildfires can draw on century-old carbon reserves to re-sprout.
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Firefighters responded to two separate wildfires in two days on the Prescott National Forest.
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Firefighters have extinguished one wildfire and are monitoring a second on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests.
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Fire crews with the Coconino National Forest contained a 60-acre wildfire Thursday burning about 5 miles southeast of Flagstaff. Separate crews continue to work on containment of another wildfire burning near Apache Maid Mountain by the I-17/Stoneman Lake exit south of Flagstaff.
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Relatives of three people who died last year in a flash flood stemming from the largest wildfire in New Mexico’s recorded history are suing the U.S. Forest Service.
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A yearlong effort to craft recommendations for federal fire policy comes to a close today. The new report, submitted to Congress, focuses on ways to step up so-called “beneficial fire” that is managed for ecological health. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny spoke with one of the authors, Neil Chapman of the Flagstaff Fire Department.
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The U.S. Forest Service’s own prescribed burn started a sprawling 2022 wildfire that nearly reached Los Alamos, New Mexico, the agency acknowledged Monday in a report published after a lengthy investigation.