Community Firewise Awareness April 22

Learn how to create or expand defensible space around your home to make buildings and properties “Fire Wise” April 22 during a free Tuesday workshop at the Cobre Valley Rec Center at 4877 West Cypress Way in Miami (the golf course). This event is free and open to the community, with a light lunch available. Questions? email or call Gila County Cooperative Extension Agent Chris Jones 

ckjones@arizona.edu  or 928-719-4475       From 10am to 3pm information tables will be open and you’re invited to talk with hosts and learn more about what you can do to Firewise your home and property. Sponsored by Freeport McMoran and the International Association of Fire Chiefs, food will be available and a Firewise treatment demonstration will be conducted by the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management, scheduled at 1:30 p.m. Participants with information tables include area fire departments, Gila County Office of Emergency Management, Arizona Department …