by Web Editor | Mar 25, 2015 | News, News/PR
Wildfire season is quickly approaching, and Southern Arizona fire departments spent the day brushing up on their skills. Firefighters from several local agencies, including the Northwest Fire District, Casa Grande Fire Department, Golder Ranch Fire District, and...
by Web Editor | Dec 4, 2013 | News, News/PR
The Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing citations and penalties against the Arizona State Forestry Division in 19 wildland firefighter deaths on June 30 of this year. The Industrial Commission of Arizona is scheduled to...
by Web Editor | Oct 9, 2013 | News, News/PR
A team of expert firefighters were overrun by a massive wildfire near Yarnell, Ariz., while trying to make it to a safe zone after an unpredictable desert thunderstorm turned the Yarnell Hill Fire into their path earlier this year, while confusing radio communications...
by Web Editor | Jun 27, 2012 | News, News/PR
It’s been 20 months since two tornadoes touched down in northern Arizona, but the damage still is being cleaned up. Loggers are salvaging some 4,200 acres of trees where the tornadoes hit on Oct. 6, 2010. Some trees were uprooted, others broken off 30 feet above the...