Albuquerque Zone type 3 team assumes command of the Goose Fire

Monday July 14, 2025

Reported date: July 9, 2025                 Containment: 0%                 Cause: Lightning/Natural         

Size: 800 acres                              Personnel: 75                      Fuels: Timber, Brush      

 Strategy: Full Suppression                        Fire behavior: Creeping, Flanking, Isolated Torching

Operations: Today, the Albuquerque Zone Type 3 Incident Management Team assumed command of the incident. Yesterday, fire activity increased on the north and east flanks, while movement remained slow along the southern and western edges. Crews worked diligently to scout and construct control lines where terrain allowed. Access remains challenging due to steep and rugged conditions. Fire managers are implementing full suppression tactics using confine and contain strategies.

Turkeyfeather Wildfire Update July 14, 2025

Acres: 18,592                   Start Date: Monday, June 30, 2025                   Location: 22 miles SE of Reserve, NM 

Personnel: 89                   Containment: 0%                         Cause: Lightning/Natural

Summary: The Turkeyfeather Wildfire saw active fire behavior Sunday morning, and moderate behavior in the afternoon, as clouds and light precipitation moved into the area. The fire continues to burn through previous fire scars with downed fuels, consuming forest duff and heavies which have accumulated on the forest floor. The area where the Chicken Wildfire is located has shown very little activity.

By Mary Alice Murphy

[Editor's Note: This is part 1 of the HMS follow up community meeting on July8, 2025.]

The same facilitator from the first HMS (Hidalgo Medical Services) community discussion in late May, Lilly Irvin-Vitela, president of Community Connects Consulting of Peralta NM, again facilitated the Follow Up Community Discussion at the Grant County Veterans Memorial Business and Conference Center on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. With her was Simon, who handled the Zoom call and facilitated the Mentimeter program that people could use to ask questions.

"I believe that the solutions for the trickiest, thorniest, hardest things come from community from the people who are most impacted by policy and by systems. I think within people with an issue, the solutions reside. I know that I've had that proven time and time again, and I also believe that the most difficult, challenging, hard things are scarier when we're not talking to each other about them. So if we can make space in a respectful way, to hear each other, to disagree, to find common ground, there's nothing the community can't figure out for itself,"
 Irvin-Vitela said in her introduction.

ROAD ADVISORY
FLOODING – Rincon Area
Difficult Driving Conditions, NM 140 northbound and southbound from mile marker 0, at NM 185 to mile marker 2 Rincon.
Standing water on roadway. Use extreme caution.

FLOODING – Hatch Area
Difficult Driving Conditions, NM 154 eastbound and westbound from mile marker 0 Hatch to mile marker 4.
Standing water on roadway. Use extreme caution.

FLOODING – Hatch to Radium Springs Area
Difficult Driving Conditions, NM 185 northbound and southbound from mile marker 22, 7 miles north of Radium Springs to mile marker 33, 1 mile north of Angostura. Standing water on roadway. Use extreme caution.


When the roadway is flooded do not cross and seek an alternate route. Turn around, don't drown.

Roads were temporarily closed but are now open.

HIGH WIND WEATHER ADVISORY:
High wind warning in Hildago & Luna Counies, visibility is low in areas due to blowing dust. High profile vehicles please use caution. The NMDOT will continue monitoring the roadway. This event will be updated as conditions change.

[Editor's Note: I didn't post the weather forecast for it, because it takes too long to resize  the photos and straighten out the mess of their text. If the wind is blowing hard, be prepared for there to be road issues on I-10 in the two counties and on some of their other roads, too. Be the smart people you are and keep track of the weather, often by just looking out the window, and be prepared!]

Flash Flood Warning

National Weather Service El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM
217 PM MDT Sun Jul 13 2025

The National Weather Service in El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
The Trout Fire Burn Scar in...
Northeastern Grant County in southwestern New Mexico...

* Until 430 PM MDT.

* At 217 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producingheavy rain over the Trout Fire Burn Scar. Between 0.1 and 0.3 inches of rain have fallen. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.