Posted on 04/13/2022 12:24:24 PM PDT by Republicans 2016 2020
Firefighters scouted the drought-stricken mountainsides around a New Mexico village on Wednesday as they looked for opportunities to slow a wind-driven wildfire that a day earlier had burned at least 150 homes and other structures while displacing thousands of residents and forcing the evacuation of two schools.
Homes were among the structures that burned Tuesday, but officials did not have a count of how many were destroyed in the blaze that torched at least 6.4 square miles (16.6 square kilometers) of forest, brush and grass on the east side of the community of Ruidoso, said Laura Rabon, spokesperson for the Lincoln National Forest.
No deaths or injuries were reported from the fire fanned by winds between 50 mph (80 kph) and 90 mph (155 kph), Rabon said.
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Whips are rassist ;-)
Two of said wildfires in New Mexico were brought to us by the US Forest Service and BLM (no, not that one, the land management one). Prescribed burns. During what has been the windiest week of the year to date. Effing idiots. One does not simply do prescribed burns in New Mexico in the spring. Period.
Maybe this is part of some plan to get people to say "well prescribed burns don't work", I guess we just gotta let everything burn and just expect people to move into the cities and away from nature cuz Mother Nature doesn't want us there.
Like the Cerro Grande in 2000.
It’s been blowing here in Colorado. The wife is driving back from Alamosa to Longmont and said she’s seen three semis blown over.
Yeah. The one that got Los Alamos. That one was before my time in NM. But I know since I've been here the USFS or other government agencies (federal and state) have had prescribed burns get out of hand in the spring.
The Dog Head fire in 2016 was caused by sparks from a brush clearing machine. That one got close to me, but prevailing winds were in my favor.
Yeah. I remember that one. Glad it didn't get you. I feel for this folks in Ruidoso. No time to do anything. Just get out now.
This = those
It’s going to be a bad one.
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