Counties In Arizona

County poised to consider fireworks ban

Other Southern Arizona counties including Cochise, Pima, Pinal and Greenlee have already enacted temporary consumer-use fireworks bans due to the wildfire risk. Pima County also banned professional fireworks displays in its unincorporated areas. Towns and cities including Sierra Vista, Willcox, Benson and Douglas have clamped down as well by prohibiting fireworks use and/or postponing fireworks displays. On Monday afternoon, Interim County Manager Carlos Rivera, who is also serving as the county’s emergency services director, released a draft of the proposed resolution. Since wildfire poses a serious threat to the lives and property of Santa Cruz County, it says, “Any person who uses fireworks, including permissible consumer fireworks, shall be subject to arrest for violation of this county-wide prohibition and shall be subject to punishment upon conviction as stated in A.R.S. 36-1608, or as otherwise provided by law.” In Patagonia, which already has a consumer-use fireworks prohibition in place, officials said the town didn’t even bother to order fireworks for a July 4 display this year because the conditions are so bad. And in a story in Sunday’s Arizona Republic, Tim Hill, president of the Professional Fire Fighters of Arizona, said he couldn’t imagine why any city or town wouldn’t ban fireworks use.

AZ is Public Health Ready » AZ Dept. of Health Services Director's ...

The results are in, and 14 of Arizona’s 15 county local health departments will be recognized through the Project Public health Ready recognition program.  Coconino County led the way and was the first AZ local health department to receive recognition.  When we saw how well the program worked in Coconino County, the counties and our preparedness team decided to make Project Public Health Ready recognition the primary deliverable under our CDC Public Health Preparedness Cooperative Agreement, and we’re sure glad we did.

Project Public Health Ready (PPHR) is a competency-based training and recognition program that assesses preparedness and assists local health departments, or groups of local health departments working collaboratively as a region, to respond to emergencies.  The criteria are the only known national standards for local public health preparedness and are updated annually to incorporate the most recent federal initiatives.  Each of the three primary project goals—all-hazards preparedness planning, workforce capacity development, and demonstration of readiness through exercises or real events—have a comprehensive list of standards that must be met in order to achieve recognition.

The applicants from Arizona have been developing their plans over the past year in hopes to obtain this prestigious accomplishment.  Fifty-seven public health peers from across the nation evaluated the applications based on the PPHR criteria.

Well done and congratulations!

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The Auk

ON THE AVI-FAUNA OF PINAL COUNTY, WITH REMARKS ON SOME BIRDS OF PIMA AND GILA COUNTIES, ARIZONA. BY WED SCOTT. With annotations by JA Allen. ...

Descriptions of the Piedmont stock range in Maricopa, Yavapai and Yuma counties, Arizona Territory, with observations upon the advantages of Arizona as a stock-raising region

This Piedment region of Arizona skirts the southwest side of the chief mountain region of the Territory — a portion which lies at the foot of the mountain ...

Arizona flora

Near Needles, California, possibly in Mohave County, Arizona, Larrea desert, not common, usually growing under bushes and scrambling through them. ...

Report of the conference of the Tax Commission, Boards of Supervisors and County Assessors of the State of Arizona

The Secretary thereupon called the roll, showing the following representation: The several counties of the State of Arizona, and the Tax Commission of the ...