Agencies Rush to Get Ready for Arizona Wildfire Season Following Shutdown

  • Source: Arizona Public Media
  • Published: 02/04/2019 12:31 PM

Federal firefighting agencies had to postpone trainings, prescribed burns and hiring during the shutdown, which may affect how prepared their firefighters are for wildfire season. Firefighters in the National Forest Service, National Parks Service and Bureau of Land Management will have to reschedule workshops they missed, prepare the land and the paperwork for prescribed burns that had to be cancelled, and rehire seasonal firefighters for wildfire season. They hope they can do it all before wildfire season hits Arizona. Coronado National Forest employees will be burning piles of wood on Mount Graham near the Turkey Flat area as part of regular forest maintenance over the next several weeks.



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