With the arrival of spring it is time to make sure your home is Firewise!
* Limit the amount of flammable vegetation or choose fire resistant plants.
* Clean off roofs and vents and make sure the gutters are clear too.
* Check under decks or porches
* Move firewood away from the home and
* Make sure your lawn is mowed regularly

Don’t wait until it’s too late and fire dangers is high to take these simple preventative steps to safeguard your home!

With both Apache and Navajo counties experiencing both snowfall and flooding issues, we wanted to make sure that everyone knows this important, life-saving information:

• Hazards such as black ice, fog, high winds and white out conditions can impair visibility and safe driving. Safety tips include slow down, don’t tailgate, turn headlights on. Stock an emergency kit and blankets , check tire treads and wiper blades and ensure all the lights are working. Here are other winter driving tips.

• Heavy rains falling on melting snowpack can produce disastrous flooding, swelling in creeks and rivers and overflow of lakes and reservoirs. With the heavy rains we have been experiencing, on top of melting snow we will continue to experience rapid runoff causing streams to rise. Use caution in these areas, do not drive thru the streams and rivers, Turn around, don’t drown!

***WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM MST THIS EVENING***

The National Weather Service in Flagstaff has issued a Wind Advisory, which is in effect from 10 AM this morning to 7 PM MST this evening.

* TIMING…Strong winds will develop this morning and continue through this evening along and northeast of higher terrain including the Mogollon Rim, San Francisco Peaks, Black Mesa, and Chuska Mountains.