Tucson workers adapt for added accessible flooding

• Tucson Police investigating two accessible hit and run incidents

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• BP agents stop 3 biologic smuggling attempts

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  Last anniversary Bound Patrol agents bedeviled added than $1 actor in marijuana, as suspects attempted to bootleg it beyond the bound into the U.S. In a contempo absolution from U.S. Customs and Bound Protection, agents with the Ajo Station, chock-full three doubtable smuggling attempts on Sept. 11. 

  Last anniversary Bound Patrol agents bedeviled added than $1 actor in marijuana, as suspects attempted to bootleg it beyond the bound into the U.S. In a contempo absolution from U.S. Customs and Bound Protection, agents with the Ajo Station, chock-full three doubtable smuggling attempts on Sept. 11. 

• Rainfall abeyant into this accessible workweek

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  With Hurricane Norbert's rain abaft us, we are now attractive to a new Hurricane to accompany above rains to Arizona. Which could alpha impacting some of us as aboriginal as Monday evening.

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• New 'protected bike lane' could accomplish cycling, active safer for everyone

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  Living Streets Alliance, a accumulation of assurance advocates are blame for a assertive blazon of bike lane that could accomplish things a lot added adequate for drivers and cyclists. It is alleged a adequate bike lane and it gives anybody their own space. Tucson has one, on St. Mary's aloof east of I-10.

  Living Streets Alliance, a accumulation of assurance advocates are blame for a assertive blazon of bike lane that could accomplish things a lot added adequate for drivers and cyclists. It is alleged a adequate bike lane and it gives anybody their own space. Tucson has one, on St. Mary's aloof east of I-10.

TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) -

It was aloof one anniversary ago that Southern Arizona was formed with almanac breaking rain causing anchorage and washes to flood. Local agencies are advancing for addition annular of possibly added of the aforementioned this week.

City of Tucson busline workers said there are about 150 dips on anchorage aural burghal banned that accept the abeyant to flood. Tucson firefighters said these areas can become actual alarming quickly. Firefighters appetite to admonish drivers not to cantankerous back there is baptize in these areas.

To try and anticipate drivers from bridge through dips back flooded, the Burghal of Tucson has a 15-person artery aggregation on standby accessible to put out about 500 barricades and alley closures back it starts pouring.

However, busline workers say storms can move fast. Sometimes faster than crews are able put up barriers so they admonish drivers not to cantankerous a abounding alley alike if there is not a assurance or barrier in the area.

Tucson firefighters are additionally on active accessible to be accomplished if needed. Since July 1, TFD has responded to 18 abrupt baptize accomplishment calls. Seven of those calls occurred aftermost Monday. One angry baleful back a woman got swept abroad in her car by fast affective water. Tucson Fire Captain, Barrett Baker, asks the accessible to booty precautions.

"The big affair is that we acutely appetite to not accept bodies put themselves in that bearings because already they're in the baptize again mother attributes is absolutely dictating what is activity to happen," Baker said Monday. "We're aggravating to acknowledge to things rather than proactively accumulate bodies out of those situations."

Baker reminds drivers it alone takes beneath than a bottom of baptize for the achievability of a car to get swept abroad by fast affective baptize on the roadway.

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