All Burning Permits have been cancelled. Debris burning has been shut down indefinitely. No new permits will be issued. Thank you for your cooperation.

Wildland Fire season, unfortunately, is upon us. Arizona and the White Mountain Area has had several small and three large fires. It only takes one careless person to destroy our forest and homes. You are invited to look at a web site that the fire departments all over Arizona and the southwest use on a regular basis for fire information,  http://gacc.nifc.gov/swcc

Wildland Fire Report: One Fire in Arizona, the Solano Fire, 2545 acres burned, 95% contained, 68 persons, 1 crews and 1 engines. The fire is located 20 miles east of Sells Az. and Raley's IMT type II team has turned the incident back over to local BIA authorities.

NFPA report: Home cooking fires are still # the 1 cause for home fires. May is "Electrical Safety Month" and NFPA has mailed every U.S. fire department a toolkit to help spread the safety message. Meet Dan Dufus at http://www.nfpa.org . Dan also helps spread the safety message.

http://593info.org is the place for information on Southern Navajo and Apache counties Joint Information Center. All you have to do simply dial 593 from your Frontier land line or *593 from any Cellular One phone of NE Arizona or 928-333-3412 or go to the web site above.

Always remember SMOKE DETECTORS SAVE LIVES!!! Have you changed the batteries in your smoke detector lately? If you need help with changing batteries feel free to call your local fire department. They would be glad to help, it's better than the alternative.

Sweeping the country is the new hands-only CPR. To learn more on this subject, go to: http://www.americanheart.org or cdc.gov . Be sure to type in the subject you are looking for in the search box, or look in the left column for a subject and click on the appropriate subject.

For road information on just about all Arizona highways and roads dial 511 from any land line, and most cell phones, and follow the prompts. For web information go to http:// www.az511.com . Thank you.