Wildland Fire Training at Crescent Moon
The Verde Valley All Hazards Training Association is sponsoring a Wildland Fire Skills Training Day on March 29, 2017 at the Crescent Moon day-use area just southwest of downtown Sedona. Six agencies are participating in the training, which will include a three-acre prescribed burn that will take place between 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and will function as a training exercise for approximately 100 firefighters. The burn area, located just east of the Crescent Moon Native Seed Nursery, will reduce invasive Johnson grass and the dead and down trees. The Sedona Fire District’s Training Officer Michael Duran will be coordinating the training event, which will include the following agencies: Forest Service, Sedona Fire District, Verde Valley Fire Department, Copper Canyon Fire and Medical Authority, Jerome Fire Department., and Cottonwood Fire Department.
Credit: Verde Valley All Hazards Training Association and USFS Coconino National Forest. Original public domain image from Flickr.