There’s a lot of work that goes into assessing fire damage after a wildfire sweeps through an area. The Burned Area Emergency Response team, also known as the BAER team, assess the area and how fire damage could affect future disasters.

“In the case of the Cody Fire, the burn severity was moderate to minimal,” Matthew Garcia said.

Garcia is the public information officer representing the Coronado National Forest and Santa Catalina Ranger District.

“There’s still potential for the normal flash flooding that we get within our desert conditions,” Garcia said.

After a fire, he said water doesn’t soak into the burned soil. The water, he said, stays on the surface and it will run down the surface, which could lead to flash floods.

The BAER team, he said, assesses the area to prevent that wi

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