Russ had a question about the wildfires in New Mexico.
As of
today several fires are still burning throughout the state, though we
are not in any danger where we live. The one nearest us is the Cerro
Pelado Fire. Some have been burning since early April and they don't
make the news once they are fairly well contained. They can burn for
months. Thousands of firefighters are on the job throughout the state
and in Arizona, Colorado and California and other states. Millions of
dollars are being spent for firefighters salary (which is NOT ADEQUATE),
protective gear, equipment, planes, helicopters, surveillance, heavy
equipment like trucks and bulldozers, housing, food, transportation etc.
Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon are one combined - biggest fire in NM ever.
Sorry about the formatting...copy and paste glitch More info and photos and videos here if you want to browse around :https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/
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Wildfire |
New Mexico, USA |
324132 Acres |
7 hrs. ago |
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Wildfire |
New Mexico, USA |
4896 Acres |
8 hrs. ago |
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Wildfire |
New Mexico, USA |
340980 Acres |
9 hrs. ago |
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Wildfire |
New Mexico, USA |
340980 Acres |
9 hrs. ago |
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Wildfire |
New Mexico, USA |
45605 Acres |
2 days ago |
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Wildfire |
New Mexico, USA |
37 Acres |
6/9/2022 |
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Wildfire |
New Mexico, USA |
38225 Acres |
6/9/2022 |
5 comments:
Glad you’re no currently at risk. I can’t imagine the air quality issues everywhere as a result.
Thanks for the update, I had no idea. The fires have dropped out of the headlines on Google News.
I wonder what you and Leon think of the Park Service admitting they were responsible for starting this catastrophe? (At least, that's what the short summary I read seemed to indicate.)
Glad you're in no immediate danger, at least that's something!
Scary times between fires and droughts out West.
Mitch, Fortunately the air where we live has been mostly tolerable except for some brief periods...either that or we've adapted to breathing smoke.
Russ, Leon works for Bureau of Land Management. Like many here in New Mexico we think the US Forest Service (not the Park Service) was totally foolish and irresponsible for doing "controlled burn" during the driest and during unprecedented winds, and in one case leaving a burn pile they thought was extinguished but which flared up again many days/weeks later. These fires have devastated hundreds of thousands of acre of forest.
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