4/1/15 – Is your home ready for wildfire season? Have you cleared the space around your home from brush and debris? Cleaned the gutters? These are just a few of the simple things that could mean all the difference this wildfire season in saving your home! Every year 1,500 fires are started in Arizona and as good as they are our brave firefighters need your help! Have their backs this year by creating a defensible space around your home, get a kit together and create a plan for your family and live Firewise!

3/30/15 – Governor Doug Ducey has signed a proclamation declaring the week of March 30-April4, 2015 “Wildfire Prevention Week”. The theme for this year is “Where We Live, How We Live, Living with Wildfire.”  The focus of the week is to increase awareness and to promote actions that reduce the risk from wildfire to homes and communities.

Throughout the week we will bring you more information and messages to share with your family and friends. Today’s message is ‘Never throw a cigarette out of the window of a vehicle’. Use your ashtray to prevent wildfires.

Stay tuned for more messages this week as we bring you information on how you and your family and friends can help prevent wildfires.

3/28/15 – The Springerville Ranger District is taking advantage of warm days and cool nights, which offer better ventilation for smoke, to begin a prescribed burn on Monday, March 30. The location is northwest of Greens Peak Hideaways in the Mallory Springs and Cerro Trigo areas (T9N/R26E/Sections 1, 2, and 11-14)

Crews will be on scene from the beginning of ignitions until dark and though the weekends monitoring fire containment.

For questions or concerns please contact the Springerville Ranger District at (928)333-6200. For updates call 311 or (928)333-3412. Information can also be found at Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest website at: www.fs.usda.gov/asnf.