Posted on 06/19/2024 8:53:31 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian
Residents of the Village of Ruidoso are under an emergency mandatory evacuation order due to wildfires in the area.
The South Fork Fire and the Salt Fire are burning on Mescalero tribal land, near Ruidoso, according to the New Mexico Forestry Division.
Residents should evacuate immediately without gathering belongings or attempting to protect their homes., officials with the Village of Ruidoso shared via social media at 6:54 p.m. on Monday, June 17. Several roads are closed, including Highway 48 and Highway 70 at Apache Summit. The only evacuation route is Sudderth to Highway 70 out to Roswell.
A fire warning has been issued for portions of Highway 70 between Casino Apache and the Lincoln County Line, according to the National Weather Service.
Travelers should not drive into smoke and follow updated guidelines from local officials.
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Got the horses out OK and heading to the big ranch.
The best fire map is here:
https://app.watchduty.org/#/i/22195
The cause of the fires are stupid environmental regs that have prevented proper clearing of Lincoln National Forest and land on the Mescalero Indian Reservation. As they completely burn, this is a reminder that environmentalists don't care about the environment. They just want to make it impossible for humans to live.
Unconfirmed, but both fires appear to have been intentionally started.
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How did they deal with it before Coronado or DeSoto arrived?
This is the live webcam of our “downtown”, looking north by north west. The haze is smoke.
https://www.ruidoso.net/visitor-information/ruidoso-midtown-webcam
The South Park Fire (which started on Mescalero land) stopped just north of town, but burned about 1500 homes/structures.
The Salt Fire is coming from the south.
I have no idea who Coronado or DeSoto are.
Really?
Did I stutter? Not in the mood for fools or know-it-alls.
Getting light breezes from the east here, which signals a cool down and higher percentage chance of rain, possibly steady. Praying for you folks, we had to evacuate for a couple days in 2016 due to the Dog’s Head fire in the Manzanos.
Love me some Ruidoso. Hope everyone gets out safe and your place is as well. We had several “instant” fires last week in Reno which got contained fairly quick. They just started. Weird huh? I hate arsonists. Best of luck and prayers up.
Spanish inquisition. IIRC, we studied that back in grade 4 or 5 in California.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-Vazquez-de-Coronado
The trees were diverse not all high fire burn Pine, and they dug ditches for containment. Not only trees but homes to local wildlife, Besides using up water. We’ve suspected these are all purposely set, to destroy land and food.
DeSoto wandered around Florida and Mississippi before he started making cars.
Hope you make it through unscathed. We were evacuated back in 2018 due to a 50,000 acre fire in my area. Sucks.
Spectacular stuff. When everybody has to leave town at once, that’s what it looks like. Have a plan and a full tank.
It was a clear day, no lightning, no powerlines, roads etc in the area they started. It was arson. And guaranteed someone has already been to the ignition point and has seen that it was human caused.
Super relevant to today.
(That’s sarcasm, BTW.)
Controlled burns. Indians used to light fires and burn out underbrush. Made the forest way better for hunting. And sometimes lightning caused fires grew huge and swept through large areas.
But today you can clean the forests very well by letting people cut firewood, by allowing selective logging, and by building good firebreaks in strategic locations.
In this day and age for a fire to sweep into town and burn 1500 homes is utter incompetence.
That’s my understanding, as well.
One firefighter said he could smell the kerosene (or maybe diesel, he wasn’t sure) at the South Park fire.
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