The Prescott Fire Department has been approved for a grant in the amount of $82,674 to support the Mountain Club Hazardous Fuels Reduction project. The grant is administered by the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management. According to Prescott Fire Chief Dennis Light, City Fire Department Fuels staff submitted the Mountain Club grant request in May of 2018, for the 2018 Arizona Wildland Fire Hazardous Fuels Grant Program. The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) anticipated providing funding assistance to the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire management for mitigation of fire risk in Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) areas and for the protection of Arizona communities through reduction of hazardous forest and woodland fuels.