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 […]
From Roger at Walker Fire:
We wanted to send an update on the Crooks Fire outside of the Facebook
posts we’ve put up all throughout the incident. You can go to this page
without being a Facebook member, as we understand it, to see all the
content. https://www.facebook.com/walkerfiredept/The fire started on Monday and essentially exploded in just a […]
#CrooksFire 4/22/22 Morning Operational Briefing with Kyle Jacobson, Operations Section Chief with California Interagency Incident Management Team 4
Good morning Kyle Jacobson, the operations section chief with Team Four on the crooks fire.
Current fire acreage is 2356 acres with 0% containment. […]
Same spot as previous days on Misty Mountain Loop. A lot of cloud cover, our vehicle thinks it’s 38 degrees and it is currently snowing lightly. Not enough precipitation at the moment to put it out but we’ll take it. Heading now over to Big Bug.
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Mount Davis from Big Bug Mesa rd. This spot had […]
Crooks Fire Resources
Click Here for Active Fire Map: https://maps.nwcg.gov/sa/#/%3F/%3F/34.4135/-112.4086/14
Inci.Web
https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/8067/
Walker Fire
https://www.facebook.com/walkerfiredept/
Prescott Nation Forest
https://www.facebook.com/PrescottNF
Yavapai County Sheriff
https://www.facebook.com/YavapaiCountySheriff/
Prescott Nation Forest YouTube Channel – NEW
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzbIoBB-yAclQO_Hz0hBMQQ
If you know of other good […]
Walker Fire Dept. is in the news.
Nearly three days later, firefighters are battling windy weather and the flames of the Crooks Fire 11 miles south of Prescott. According to the Prescott National Forest website, the fire is up to 2,000 acres on Thursday afternoon. Officials say strong winds pushed the fire in all directions […]
