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Sedona Fire District wants to collect your yard waste for free

Spring cleaning also extends to your yard as the Sedona Fire District is holding its 23rd annual Wildfire Preparedness Event, allowing residents free of charge disposal of their yard waste and help make their homes Firewise ahead of the...

Hobbs outlines 2025 wildfire season

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs and Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management Officer John Truett held a press conference in Phoenix last month to discuss the outlook for the 2025 wildfire season, which they said has the potential...

Hobbs, USFS sign fire risk meeting plan

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed a non-binding Shared Stewardship Agreement with the federal government on Thursday, Oct. 10, intended to enable state and federal agencies to collaborate to reduce community wildfire risk.  “Arizona doesn’t have a wildfire ‘season’ anymore,”...

How wildland firefighters battle fires in the West

The first big wildfire of the 2024 season to affect Sedona and the Verde Valley is the 960-acre Bravo Fire. Burning on the heavily-wooded Camp Navajo, an Arizona National Guard facility south of Bellemont, an unincorporated community 22 miles...

Two prescribed burn projects fire up May 13-16

Coconino National Forest fire managers will resume plans for the Horseshoe Wild Bill and Maxwell Springs prescribed burn projects through this week in an effort to help protect communities from catastrophic wildfires and improve the health of the forest. The...

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Arizona Community Foundation of Sedona celebrates and awards local philanthropists

While accepting her Lifetime Achievement Award from the Arizona Community Foundation of Sedona, Terrie Frankel announced she was donating...

Chili judges exchange barbs

Tuesday cook-off includes at least 1 good judge The chili's on with the second annual Sedona Area Veterans Community &...
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