SANTA FE, NM – Santa Fe County Fire Department’s Black Canyon Wildland Fire Crew will be deployed to Prineville, OR to assist with the Elbow fire. The six-member crew will be on an 18-day assignment of assisting with the fire. The crew will be in Oregon with one fire truck and one
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The Amargo Fire started around 11:45 a.m. on Saturday, August 7, 2021. It is currently burning about 800 acres approximately and one mile west of the community of Dulce, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Officials have put in requests to Taos Dispatch to fill orders for
JORDAN, Montana — Five federal firefighters remain hospitalized in stable condition after sustaining burn injuries when swirling winds blew a lightning-caused wildfire back on them in eastern Montana on Thursday.
Money, aid coming to NM during wildfire season Governors from western states, including New Mexico, met with President Joe Biden and members of his cabinet to discuss ways to put more teeth into fighting wildfires. U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Western states must be ready. She says the feds are
President Biden announced a series of steps in response to intensifying wildfires in the western U.S. on Wednesday, calling the fires “a problem for all of us” and saying the U.S. must act “fast” during a meeting with western governors.
Lightning strikes during a Sunday afternoon thunderstorm in Grant County have ignited two fires in different parts of the county. One of those fires is the Lampbright fire. It’s located east of Mimbres, just north of NM highway 52. There is no containment in this fire, which has burned about 20
ALTO, N.M. (KRQE) – Crews are continuing to contain the Ball Field Fire located behind the Shell gas station at 101 Ski Run Road in Ruidoso. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is asking residents in the immediate area of the gas station and the ball fields to voluntarily evacuate while the High
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —A flag-covered casket carrying the body of smokejumper Tim Hart was loaded into a plane at the El Paso Airport Sunday morning to be transported back to his home in Wyoming. Hart’s mother said her son died doing what he loved.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Program has issued a Health Alert due to smoke on Monday, June 7. The alert is effective at 12 a.m. and will expire at 2 p.m.
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