Firefighters to conduct 600-acres worth of pile burns near Flagstaff for next three weeks

  • Source: Arizona Daily Sun
  • Published: 09/26/2018 06:30 AM

Favorable weather conditions are allowing the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management to resume ignitions to several hundred acres of debris piles outside of Flagstaff. This is the second week of the agency’s pile burn project and current weather allows firefighters to continue burning and accomplish the goals of the hazardous fuels projects designed to protect communities in the area. On Tuesday crews planned to burn piles in Woody Ridge, five miles east of the original project location, southwest of Flagstaff and south of Camp Navajo. Crews were expected to burn 50 acres of piles during Tuesday’s operational period. Residual evening and night time smoke from the Woody Ridge burn may impact Pump House Wash and the Oak Creek areas.



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