Restoring Healthy Forests and Preventing Dangerous Wildfires

The Gladiator Fire near Crown King was 90% contained Friday. Fewer than two dozen people were mopping up hot spots on the 16, 240-acre blaze that sparked May 13.Click here to read Read more »

A new emergency fire closure is in effect for all trails, roads and lands in the burned area of the Gladiator Fire, Bradshaw Ranger District officials said. The human-caused fire that has blackened more than 16,000 acres is 80 percent contained.Click here to read Read more »

Investigators have ruled out suspicious or natural causes for the house fire that ignited the Gladiator wildfire near Crown King May 13. The exact cause is still under investigation, Yavapai County Sheriff's Office spokesman Dwight D'Evelyn said. Click here to read Read more »

Containment of the Gladiator Fire reached 80 percent Monday morning. About 39 firefighters remained on the fire patrol and mop-up duties as small pockets of fuels continued to smolder.Click here to read Read more »

The Gladiator Fire improved to 65 percent containment Wednesday morning. The blaze consumed 16,240 acres, a number that has remained steady for several days. Fire crews continue to gain command of the wildfires burning across the state. Click here to read Read more »

Five Desert Hills Fire Department wild land firefighters returned from the Gladiator Fire, in the Prescott National Forest.Click here to read Read more »

CROWN KING — A historic mining town that was evacuated by a wildfire will be reopened to the public on Memorial Day with a change in scenery. Full-time residents and business owners from Crown King and other, smaller communities to the north were allowed to return home FridayClick here to read Read more »

About 350 residents of Crown King in central Arizona remained under evacuation orders after another blaze, the fast-moving Gladiator Fire, burned nearly 9 square miles (22 square kilometers) of ponderosa pine, brush and chaparral in the Prescott National Forest Click here to read Read more »

Arizona has four separate wildfires burning more then 15,000 acres currently. The largest is the Sunflower wildfire ripping through 12,000 acres in the Tonto National Forest just 20 miles south of the town of Payson. Click here to read Read more »

The Gladiator Fire more than doubled in size to roughly 5,400 acres Wednesday as it roared through the heart of the Bradshaw Mountains, claiming one more home and moving ever closer to others in the remote community of Crown King. Click here to read Read more »