coconino county
Winter Snow Play Advisory for the Martin Luther King Holiday Weekend
FLAGSTAFF (CCSO Release) – In the recent past, three day holiday weekends have been extremely busy for the snow play areas located along the Highway 180 corridor with several of the more popular areas reaching capacity by 11:00 a.m. Representatives of the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office, the Flagstaff Police Department, and the Arizona Department of [...]
Coconino County Reports 2nd Swine Flu Death
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The Coconino County Health Department says another county resident has died from complications of the swine flu.
Health officials said Monday that a victim is a woman in her early 50s who resided in Flagstaff. Her name was not released.
Officials say she’s the second Coconino County resident to die from swine flu [...]
Body Found in Grand Canyon, Believed to be Missing N.C. Man
Grand Canyon, Ariz. – At approximately 10:45 a.m., the body of a lone male was discovered outside of the initial Andrew Brunelli search zone by the park’s helicopter. The body is believed to be that of 43 year-old Andrew Brunelli of Clayton, North Carolina.
National Park Service search and rescue personnel had been searching for Mr. [...]
West Nile virus case in Coconino County
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say the first human case of West Nile virus in Coconino County this year has been diagnosed in a 40-year-old woman from the Flagstaff area.
Officials with the Coconino County Health Department said Wednesday that a blood specimen from the patient tested positive for the virus at the Arizona State Health [...]
Coconino County Designated “StormReady” by the National Weather Service
FLAGSTAFF (NAZT)– County officials and National Weather Service meteorologists met Wednesday to that Coconino County is “StormReady.”
StormReady is a NWS program that helps municipalities and counties be prepared for the multiple hazards that can affect them as a result of severe weather. The goal of the program is to “to provide the necessary communication [...]
