AZ Fire Season Meeting
State Representative David Marshall (R-7) is announcing a public meeting of the Arizona House Fire Preparedness Ad Hoc Committee in Payson at the Gila Community College as wildfire season escalates.
Topics for discussion by the Committee will include presentations from the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management and the Salt River Project, focusing on forest conditions, fuel management, and coordinating utility responses.
The meeting comes in the wake of the Dragon Bravo Fire near the Grand Canyon, which is still burning in Northern Arizona... READ MORE
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