Scheduled to open for the first day of school on Wednesday, Sechrist Elementary School sits surrounded by floodwater Sunday afternoon with three inches of ash and mud in the parking lot and on the sidewalk in front of the school. Monsoon rains falling on the Pipeline Fire burn area once again led to flooding along the Highway 180 corridor. For more photos, visit or see Page A7.
Mirroring the actions of their parents a group of children in Coconino Estates work together to try and clear slimy mud from a street Sunday afternoon. Once again monsoon rain falling on the Pipeline fire burn area led to flooding in Coconino Estates where neighbors were helping neighbors defend each other's homes from the flood.
Heavy equipment clears debris from Highway 180 so that the road can be reopened Sunday afternoon after it was closed by another monsoon rain even over the Pipeline Fire burn area, which led to flooding in Coconino Estates.
Maeve Harrington, 6, and Macy Lalan, 4, play patty-cake Sunday afternoon while sitting on sandbags in a neighbor's flooded driveway in Coconino Estates while their parents helped clean up after another flood.
Scheduled to open for the first day of school on Wednesday, Sechrist Elementary School sits surrounded by floodwater Sunday afternoon with three inches of ash and mud in the parking lot and on the sidewalk in front of the school. Monsoon rains falling on the Pipeline Fire burn area once again led to flooding along the Highway 180 corridor. For more photos, visit or see Page A7.
Mirroring the actions of their parents a group of children in Coconino Estates work together to try and clear slimy mud from a street Sunday afternoon. Once again monsoon rain falling on the Pipeline fire burn area led to flooding in Coconino Estates where neighbors were helping neighbors defend each other's homes from the flood.
Heavy equipment clears debris from Highway 180 so that the road can be reopened Sunday afternoon after it was closed by another monsoon rain even over the Pipeline Fire burn area, which led to flooding in Coconino Estates.
Maeve Harrington, 6, and Macy Lalan, 4, play patty-cake Sunday afternoon while sitting on sandbags in a neighbor's flooded driveway in Coconino Estates while their parents helped clean up after another flood.
Wednesday will be the start of the school year for kids across Flagstaff, including at Flagstaff Unified School District (FUSD). For those attending Sechrist Elementary, flooding might also be a concern.
Flooding from the Pipeline Fire scar has repeatedly closed a section of Highway 180 this summer, including directly across from the elementary school. While the building itself has a protective wall of sandbags, the parking lot and nearby roads have gone underwater multiple times as a result of the floods, most recently on Sunday afternoon.
Residents of Coconino Estates work together on Talkington Drive Sunday afternoon to bail water out of the driveway of a home after monsoon flooding once again swept through the neighborhood.
Lilly Sabol, 14, brushes mud from in front of her Coconino Estates home Sunday afternoon after monsoon rain falling on the Pipeline Fire burn area once again led to flooding in Coconino Estates.
As a river of floodwater rushes past her garden fence, Beth Duschatko shovels mud from the flooding out of her front garden in Coconino Estates Sunday afternoon.
A sign sits on top of a berm of sandbags beside Highway 180 Sunday afternoon calling for passing trucks to go slow and not overtop sandbags with floodwater.
Chunks of wood sit all over the surface of Highway 180 Sunday afternoon where they were left by receding floodwater after monsoon rains fell on the Pipeline Fire burn area and once again led to flooding of Coconino Estates.
Scheduled to open for the first day of school on Wednesday, Sechrist Elementary School sits surrounded by floodwater Sunday afternoon with three inches of ash and mud in the parking lot and on the sidewalk in front of the school. Monsoon rains falling on the Pipeline Fire burn area once again led to flooding along the Highway 180 corridor. For more photos, visit or see Page A7.
Mirroring the actions of their parents a group of children in Coconino Estates work together to try and clear slimy mud from a street Sunday afternoon. Once again monsoon rain falling on the Pipeline fire burn area led to flooding in Coconino Estates where neighbors were helping neighbors defend each other's homes from the flood.
Mirroring the actions of their parents a group of children in Coconino Estates work together to try and clear slimy mud from a street Sunday afternoon. Once again monsoon rain falling on the Pipeline fire burn area led to flooding in Coconino Estates where neighbors were helping neighbors defend each other's homes from the flood.
Jake Lalan uses a snow shovel to move mud and water out of the yard of a home in Coconino Estates Sunday afternoon as flooding once again returned to the west side neighborhood.
Neighbors helped neighbors Sunday afternoon as residents of Coconino Estates were once again faced with post-fire flooding after monsoon rains returned.
A collapsed fence, blown-out sandbag wall and a flooded shed with a 20-inch-high water mark show what happens to a back yard when post-wildfire flooding comes down of the mountain into a neighborhood. Coconino Estates was once again dealing with black floodwater last Sunday.
Allie Stender assesses what she needs to do to protect a back garden from floodwaters in Coconino Estates Sunday afternoon after flood water overtopped a sand bag barrier on the edge of Highway 180.
Maeve Harrington, 6, and Macy Lalan, 4, play patty-cake Sunday afternoon while sitting on sandbags in a neighbor's flooded driveway in Coconino Estates while their parents helped clean up after another flood.
Kelly Lalan drives mud and debris into the middle of a street in Coconino Estates Sunday afternoon while working to protect a neighbors home from post-wildfire flooding.
Lucy Lalan, 7, left, and Arielle DelGiorgio, 7, drag snow shovels as they work together to move mud down a street in Coconino Estates Sunday afternoon. Parents and their children were out in force battling floodwaters and protecting each other's homes.
Ellie Penney points to where flood water was entering her home in Coconino Estates Sunday afternoon. The water surrounded the house and left a high water mark 20 inches above the base of the doors, which led to water seeping through the walls around the home.
Jeff Duncan, left, and Michael Morales, right, walk along Highway 180, which had been closed due to post-wildfire flooding Sunday afternoon. The pair were looking to help residents of Coconino Estates.
Sechrist Elementary School sits surrounded by floodwater Sunday afternoon after monsoon rain fell on the Pipeline fire burn area. The first day of school for the new school year is Wednesday.
Heavy equipment clears debris from Highway 180 so that the road can be reopened Sunday afternoon after it was closed by another monsoon rain even over the Pipeline Fire burn area, which led to flooding in Coconino Estates.
Mud was the fashion accessory of the day for residents of Coconino Estates as once again they came together to protect each others homes from flood water after monsoon rains fell on the Pipeline Fire burn area.
