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Los Alamos Fire Department To Host Wildfire Day 2024 With Elks Annual Easter Egg Hunt Saturday March 30

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Scene from previous Wildfire Day and Easter Egg Hunt. Courtesy/LAFD

Scene from previous Wildfire Day and Easter Egg Hunt. Courtesy photo

LAFD News:

Los Alamos Fire Department (LAFD) and the Los Alamos Elks Lodge invite the community to join the festivities from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 30 at Ashley Pond Park (2200 Trinity Dr.) for Wildfire Day 2024 and the Annual Elk’s Easter Egg Hunt.

This family-friendly, outreach event includes a close look at LAFD and Los Alamos Police Department specialty equipment, a bicycle safety helmet fitting and distribution, a Classic Air Medical Helicopter Read More

Heinrich To Host Virtual Press Conference Friday Highlighting Need For Immediate Action On Fentanyl Crisis

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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — At 9:40 a.m. Friday, March 22, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will host a virtual press conference with New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, first responders, law enforcement and a New Mexico resident personally impacted by the fentanyl crisis to highlight the need for action and discuss efforts happening at all levels of government to keep families safe and get deadly fentanyl out of our communities.

Registration is required.

U.S. Sen. Heinrich will be joined by:

  • Attorney General Raúl Torrez
  • Chief Jeremy Story, Las Cruces
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More Than 450 Acres Of Piles Burned In Valles Caldera

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A member of the NPS Pueblo Parks Fire Crew burns piles on South Mountain. Photo by B. Bolser/NPS

VCNP News:

JEMEZ SPRINGS – With winter concluding, the National Park Service has completed its prescribed pile burning in Valles Caldera National Preserve (VCNP) for the season.

These burns are part of a prescribed burn project to reduce material left from previous forest thinning work.

Over the past three months, fire crews successfully burned piles across 297 acres on South Mountain and 162 acres in Sulphur Canyon, totaling 459 acres of successful fuel reduction in the park.

Fire crews are monitoring Read More

Santa Fe National Forest Seeks Input On Encino Vista Landscape Restoration Project

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Encino Vista. Courtesy/SFNF

SFNF News:

SANTA FE — The Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) will begin accepting comments today, March 15, 2024, for the Encino Vista Landscape Restoration Project (EVLRP) preliminary environmental assessment.

The Encino Vista Landscape Restoration Project is an approximately 130,305-acre project on the Coyote and Cuba Ranger Districts. The proposed EVLRP was developed after the South Fork Wildfire (2010) and the Diego Wildfire (2014) created severe long-term resource damage to watersheds, wildlife habitat, and forested landscapes within the project Read More

Southwest Wildfire Awareness Week: Time For Action

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FSG News:

SANTA FE — With the weather warming, the start of spring winds, and Southwest Wildfire Awareness Week at the end of the month, now is the time for residents of the southwest to take proactive steps against destructive wildfire.

From the desert to the bosque to the mountains, individuals and communities shouldn’t feel helpless; they can learn how to take action to protect their families, properties and communities.

What are ways to help the community prepare for all hazards and become more resilient to wildfire?

  • Communication – It is important to help your community understand
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Santa Fe National Forest Completing Pile Burn Projects For 2023-24 Winter Season

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SFNF News:

SANTA FE – Fire managers will begin ignitions Thursday on 2 to 3 acres of the Hyde Park pile burn project near Black Canyon Campground in the Española Ranger District. Smoke may be visible from Santa Fe.

The Hyde Park project marks the end of prescribed pile burn projects for the 2023-2024 winter season on the Santa Fe National Forest. Fire managers will now shift their focus to actively monitoring all fall and winter prescribed fire units.

Fire managers completed prescribed fire projects in the Cuba, Coyote, Jemez and Española Ranger Districts this past fall and winter. Fire crews treated Read More

Santa Fe National Forest Prescribed Fire Update

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SFNF fire managers are tentatively planning a prescribed burn in Pacheco Canyon. Courtesy/SFNF 

SFNF News:

SANTA FE — Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) fire managers are tentatively planning to begin ignitions Thursday and Friday of this week on the Pacheco Canyon pile burn project located near Forest Road 102 in the Espanola Ranger District.

The Pacheco Canyon unit is 60 acres of debris left after fuel reduction projects that involve thinning or cutting of trees in the forest. Currently, ideal conditions within the project unit exist including persistent snowpack, air quality, ventilation, Read More

LAPD Releases Details Of Accident On Truck Route

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LAPD News:

          • A 44-year-old male from Santa Fe succumbed to his injuries.

This morning, Feb. 27, 2024, the Los Alamos Police Department (LAPD) responded to a 9-1-1 call received by the LAPD Consolidated Dispatch Center reporting a three-car accident on N.M. 501/East Jemez Road (Truck Route) near mile marker 7.

LAPD officers arrived on the scene a few minutes later at 7:27 a.m., followed by Los Alamos Fire Department (LAFD). Police officers closed the Truck Route for several hours for accident response, clean-up and investigation efforts.

LAFD immediately treated three patients involved in Read More

USDA Secretary Vilsack Announces Nearly $500 Million Investment Expands Critical Work To Reduce Wildfire Risk

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Forest Service partners meet near Chama to learn how work on this landscape will protect human communities, wildlife habitat, and critical watersheds. Wildfire risk extends beyond lands managed by the Forest Service, and these partners are critical to the long-term success of the agency’s Wildfire Crisis Strategy. Photo by Preston Keres/USDA Forest Service

USDA News:

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Feb. 20, 2024 that the United States Department of Agriculture is investing nearly $500 million to expand work on the USDA Forest Service’s Wildfire Crisis Strategy to reduce Read More

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