Want to be a Wildland Firefighter? Montana is training Veterans for free. (Photo credit VA) Sedona AZ – Veterans Green Corps (VGC) is a field-based opportunity for post 9/11 era Armed Forces Veterans and Service Members modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps. The VGC program is an experience that provides on the job training focusing in Wildland Firefighting and chainsaw technical skills.... 

Sedona AZ – Attorney Nicole Marie Abarca of Phoenix was suspended for two years on July 3, 2019 after being convicted of facilitation to commit shoplifting with artifice and possession of drug paraphernalia. She was already serving a six-month and one day suspension after failing to comply with the State Bar diversion program and subsequent investigation stemming from related criminal activity. Abarca... 

Kasey Johnson held in custody as CCSO suspect in Fernwood neighborhood burglary and assault. Sedona AZ – Coconino County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a Flagstaff neighborhood emergency call reporting an assault, burglary and shots fired on July 29, 2019. Arriving at 6:05 a.m. to the Fernwood community home, CCSO deputies found a suspect(s) in the area. The suspect and one other... 

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Sedona AZ –  The Greater Phoenix Chapter of the American Red Cross is closing the Prescott (AZ) Cellar Fire shelter with the lifting of evacuations for Pine Flatt today. The Northern Arizona Chapter of the Red Cross will continue to monitor the situation and respond accordingly. The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides emotional support to victims of disasters; supplies about 40 percent... 

Sedona AZ – Today, thanks to a provision within the bipartisan First Step Act of 2018, more than 2,000 people will be released from federal prisons and return home to their families and communities. Already, thousands of individuals and their families have benefitted from the First Step Act, but more must be done to ensure the law’s success. If fully and properly implemented by the administration,... 

Coconino County AZ Search and Rescue team responds to Lava River Cave emergency call. Sedona AZ – On July 13, 2019, at 11:55 a.m., the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue received a Lava River Cave emergency call for help. The lava tube cave is off Forest Service Road #171 in northern Arizona’s Coconino National Forest and is managed by the USFS. The emergency caller... 

Sedona AZ — On Wednesday, July 10, 2019, after an internal audit and investigation, Arizona Department of Public Safety (AZDPS) detectives arrested Pedro Javier Aguila Muniz, 27, at the department’s headquarters. Aguila had been assigned to the Highway Patrol Division’s Metro [Phoenix] Bureau for approximately two years. Aguila was booked into the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office 4th Avenue... 

Sedona AZ – The Fourth of July 2019 holiday weekend kept Arizona firefighters extremely busy. The Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management reports, between Thursday (July 4) and Sunday (July 7), firefighters responded to forty-six wildfires across Arizona on all land jurisdictions: The 46 fires burned a combined total of nearly four thousand acres. Most of the fires over the holiday... 

Sedona AZ – The American Red Cross Southwest urges everyone to make sure they are prepared for a disaster like earthquakes and not wait until an emergency occurs and it’s too late. An earthquake is a sudden, rapid shaking of the earth caused by the breaking and shifting of rock beneath the earth’s surface. Earthquakes strike suddenly, without warning, and they can occur at any time of the year,...