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Location: 10 miles south of Prescott-Bradshaw Ranger District (T12N, R2W, SEC 12), near Mt Union.
Start Date: April 18, 2022
Size: Approximately 3,914 acres, 22% Containment
Cause: Under Investigation
Vegetation: Brush, […]
Fire manager are reporting 22% containment (black line). The fire is still pushing south. To the east there’s several burn scars if somehow the fire did something crazy in that direction.
To the west of the fire they are putting successive handline, dozer line and have dropped a line of retardant in case the fire […]
Sheriff David Rhodes’s office announced this evening that people evacuated from Walker Rd north of South Spruce Hollow and west of Big Bug Mesa will be allowed to return to their homes beginning tomorrow at 3pm. (Please see attached map).
Residents, and at this time only residents, can drive to the checkpoint on Walker […]
A Large Air Tanker drops retardant along a ridge above the Ash Creek drainage on the southwest corner of the Crooks Fire. “Painting a ridge” with retardant helps slow fire growth and keep the fire in check so that ground resources […]
Unfortunately, the evacuation is not scheduled to be lifted today.
There continues to be fire activity to the south. Containment was reported at 15%, all along the northern perimeter just south of Potato Patch. The risks focus on it moving south and then eventually to the west away from us. That’s a low probability outcome but […]
Crooks Fire Daily Update
April 24, 2022
Location: 10 miles south of Prescott-Bradshaw Ranger District (T12N, R2W, SEC 12), near Mt Union.
Start Date: April 18, 2022
Size: Approximately 3,091 acres, 15% Containment
Cause: Under Investigation
Vegetation: Brush, Ponderosa Pine, and Mixed Conifer
Number of Personnel Assigned: 615
Yesterday, drier fuels with lower humidity led to […]
A community meeting will be held Sunday, April 24th, 2022, at 6:00 p.m., at Embry Riddle University in the Hanger, 3700 Willow Creek Dr., Prescott, Arizona. The meeting will be live-streamed to the Prescott National Forest Facebook. If you are unable to attend, the recording will be available to view afterward, visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzbIoBB-yAclQO_Hz0hBMQQ or […]
Received more information on this. The temperature, humidity and wind direction is exactly as forecasted. This fire activity is exactly where we relayed before, southwest corner of the fire and this fire activity is exactly as expected. It might be uncomfortable to see but from an operations standpoint, this is good.
Read the entire article at: […]
#CrooksFire Update – 4/23/22
April 23, 2022
Location: 10 miles south of Prescott-Bradshaw Ranger District (T12N, R2W, SEC 12), near Mt Union.
Start Date: April 18, 2022
Size: Approximately 2,804 acres, 5% Containment
Cause: Under Investigation
Vegetation: Brush, Ponderosa Pine, and Mixed Conifer
Number of Personnel Assigned: 535
Despite the significant wind event yesterday, there was […]
