Wildfires

Arizona Public Service has nearly 40 active AI smoke-detection cameras and plans to have 71 by summer's end, and the state’s fire agency has deployed seven of its own.

Smoke from the fire near Buckeye has blown into the rest of the Valley since it started burning Saturday.

Kathleen Muldoon is a professor at an Arizona medical school who lives in north Peoria not too far from where the Hazen wildfire is burning. And she has Valley fever.

The fire is generating a lot of fine particulate matter which could worsen health outcomes for people with respiratory issues.

The Hazen Fire is burning about a mile south of Buckeye residential areas and is bordering State Route 85. As of Tuesday afternoon it stood at 1049 acres and reached 10% containment overnight.

The bill would grant the U.S. Forest Service the ability to enter emergency contracts to speed up recovery efforts.

The ban is part of an annual effort to mitigate wildfire risk amid consistently below-average rainfall and dry conditions across Arizona.

This week, the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management is taking the reins of an annual cleanup event to help protect Flagstaff communities from wildfire.

Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum comments came in a testimony before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on President Donald Trump's budget requests for the next fiscal year.

A Northern Arizona University professor and other researchers are studying the monetary impacts of wildfires on local communities.