wildland fires – AZ Dept. of Health Services Director's Blog

Arizona Receives Top Marks in CDC’s Annual Report for Public Health Preparedness

By Cara Christ|2018-04-17T08:53:58-07:00April 17th, 2018|Preparedness|

I’m excited to announce that our State has received another set of outstanding scores for public health preparedness from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR). The 2018 National Snapshot provides an overview of federal, state, local, and tribal preparedness and response efforts. The report also includes fact sheets with performance [...]

Wallow Wildfire

By azdhs-admin|2011-06-03T17:21:24-07:00June 3rd, 2011|Preparedness|

The Wallow Fire is burning a few miles SW of Alpine. It was still pretty small yesterday (about 6,000 acres) but exploded overnight to more than 100,000 acres today. The fire spread to the northeast toward Alpine today and the incident management team issued an evacuation order for Alpine a few minutes ago, requiring folks to leave [...]