Fire News

Cannon to right of them,

Cannon to left of them,

Cannon behind them

Volley'd & thunder'd

With the sound of a Sikorski chopper headed to Pecos in the background here's some information about our first round of summer fires here in lovely downtown Northern New Mexico...

We have two incidents, each well into a week long. To the West of Santa Fe in the Jemez mountains, the Thompson Ridge fire is at about 4500 acres and moving East towards the Valdes Caldera where the Los Conches fire did its damage two years ago. Just North of Pecos, NM to the East in the Sangres, the Tres Lagunas fire is pushing 8700 acres moving mostly uphill to the North. One can find the latest information, updated once or twice a day, at NMfireinfo.com which also features a twitter sidebar that often links to newer postings. The forest service also maintains a Google Earth map of incidents throughout the entire country at: http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/googleearth.php. But here's the latest maps that I've found posted:

Thompson Ridge from June 3 at 20:51:

For reference here's the Google Map of about the same area,
centered at 35 53 00N 106 36 30W:

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Tres Lagunas from Jun 3 at 21:07, heat map:

and fire progression:

And again, for reference here's the Google Map of about the same area,
centered at 35 43 00N 105 39 00W:

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Hopefully the left hand will not meet up with the right hand.