The fire is 72 acres and is burning approximately 65 miles south of St. George, Utah. This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Slide Fire, Arizona.
NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Just in the last week, the Arizona Department of Transportation has been forced to temporarily close a portion of State Route 89A between Sedona and Flagstaff on three occasions due to flooding and debris flowing along the burn area near the highway.The Coconino National Forest has expanded the Slide Fire emergency closure area to include all National Forest land within Oak Creek Canyon beginning Thursday (July 3).The Slide Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) team has been heavily engaged in treatments efforts and now with Interim Request #2’s approval, hillslope treatments of seeding and straw mulch application using certified weed-free products has begun. A helicopter helps battle the Slide Fire over Sterling Canyon in Sedona, Arizona, on Thursday, May 22. The Slide Fire has been extinguished, but the threat of flash floods, mudslides and rock slides is real in the Oak Creek Canyon area. Aerial seeding began mid-morning today and helimulching efforts begin tomorrow.All Coconino County offices will be closed Friday, July 4 in observance of the Independence Day holiday.The area closure is part of standard operations procedure, which helps to protect the public from entering into an area that poses a threat due to ongoing wildfire activity and/or rehabilitation efforts.While the administrative offices at the Sheriff’s Office will be closed, dispatch, records, patrol, and detention will conduct business as usual. Slide Rock State Park: Slide Fire - See 2,312 traveler reviews, 1,197 candid photos, and great deals for Sedona, AZ, at Tripadvisor.
ADOT crews have removed debris from the roadway to make it safe for drivers.A section of State Route 89A in Oak Creek Canyon near the Slide wildfire burn area has been closed because of flooding, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation.The section of State Route 89A in Oak Creek Canyon that was closed because of flooding earlier today has reopened, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation.
Beautiful park, the natural rock slide is fantastic and enjoyable for the family. Financial Assistance. Even though Forest Service campgrounds and forest service recreation areas in Oak Creek Canyon are closed, all of the businesses are open.Even though the effects from rain events cannot be entirely prevented by Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) efforts they can mitigated by reducing water flow, debris runoff and erosion from rain event on lands downstream and down-slope from moderately to severely burned areas within the fire perimeter.Efforts by the Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) team have proven successful and effective on areas of the Slide Fire and work is nearing completion.The goal is to treat the areas which pose the most severe hydrologic response to values at risk before the onset of the monsoon season in an effort to slow down runoff and decrease the water repellency of the soil.Coconino National Forest (NF) will expand the existing Slide Fire closure area for public safety on July 7 or with the onset of the monsoon pattern—whichever occurs first.SR 89A is closed near the Switchbacks section of SR 89A, from milepost 388 to milepost 391, about 10 miles north of Sedona.
The ranger who we spoke to was friendly and we can't wait to go back to Slide Rock State Park when it opens again for swimming. Details. With the exception of weather driven closures, State Route 89A remains open. In 2011, the state unwisely exited the Western Climate Initiative's emissions-trading program that sought to reduce greenhouse gases. !Because of the forest fires and the monsoon season, the park was closed to the public. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., introduced the Stewardship Contracting Reauthorization Act nearly a year ago to facilitate that, but it is languishing in the Democratic controlled Senate. May this be the I-told-you-so-moment that finally provokes residents to action.About 60 percent of fires with known causes so far this season were the result of human activity: abandoned campfires, cigarette butts, sparks from tow chains or hot exhaust pipes in dry roadside weeds.Experts have warned for years that Arizona's overgrown, drought-weakened and insect-infested forests are ripe for catastrophic fires. Raiding forest remediation funds to fight fires is exactly what the Forest Service was forced to do in eight of the last 10 years — and why so many forests are overgrown today.Sen. Sale! More than 3,000 people are on pre-evacuation notice.Arizona lawmakers provided $1.4 million this year to take out hazardous vegetation from state trust lands, and about $200,000 for staff to help the state respond more quickly to wildfires.Failures on the federal level cannot be ignored, either. The weather forecast is predicting rain for the next couple of days. Tom Tingle / The Republic The world-famous slide that our park is named for is an 80 foot-long slippery chute that is worn into sandstone. Out of stock Sale! Slide Rock includes a 1/2 mile of Oak Creek that is open for swimming, wading and sliding.