Unit 36 on Fire!

[COLOelkman]

Those hunting 36 be aware that the Blue 2 near Ruidoso. Facebook has a page on it.

Blue 2 Fire Operational Update for June 6 | Planning Operations Section Chief Scott Campbell briefs activity from the Blue 2 Fire that occurred on June 5th and the plan for operations on June 6th.... | By Blue 2 FireFacebook

Planning Operations Section Chief Scott Campbell briefs activity from the Blue 2 Fire that occurred on June 5th and the plan for operations on June 6th....

www.facebook.com

 

[Slick8]

There's a little discussion about it on the fire watch thread a little bit down the page.

It's mostly contained at 7500 acres in the old burn. I know several people had to move stock out of the path as well as some evacuations.

Thankfully I haven't heard of any houses or loss of life from this one. The last two fires in the area were smaller but not so nice to property.

 

[PerezA]

Seems like it’s mostly getting mopped up now. They got some rain yesterday evening so hopefully that helps, sounds like the team that came in is leaving in a couple days and now it’s clean up and restoring the lines to natural. Going up in a few weeks to do some more scouting

 

[Slick8]

Hope you have a great trip. Take a drive south of Nogal on Nogal Canyon Rd. That was a small fire in 22 but hit those people hard along the road.

I hope to be up there to do a little scouting and hiking in August myself.

Glad to see containment on the Blue2 fire. Some rain this summer will do it great.

 

[COLOelkman]

Anyone hear how "hot" this fire is/was? I've read that elk will move out during a fire but if it's not burned everything (really hot), they often times move right back in once it's put out.

 

[PerezA]

Not sure how hot but I can’t imagine it being it too terrible since it was in an old burn scar. They got rain on the fire yesterday and today hopefully we get some early monsoons to get stuff greened up.

 

[NMHUNTER]

Anyone hear how "hot" this fire is/was? I've read that elk will move out during a fire but if it's not burned everything (really hot), they often times move right back in once it's put out.

it doesn’t look like it scorched everything like the last fire. Most of the trees look green still. These are picture from around bonito lake posted on the blue 2 fire Facebook page

 

[PerezA]

New fire in Ruidoso today. Started on the rez looks like and evacuating upper canyon and Brady canyon.

 

[PerezA]

 

[PerezA]

 

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[Muleman]

That’s a bad location for a fire. Hope they can get a handle before it hits all the houses

 

[TerynItUp]

New fire started this AM, currently evacuating all residents of the Village of Ruidoso. Prayers for all of you down in that area.

 

[NM high country]

 

[PerezA]

Fire is growing quick. 2200+ acres looks like the whole town is under go status. Not good

 

[Servehim]

Praying for all those effected and especially those fire fighters , doesn't look good

 

[Slick8]

Wow, that escalated quickly, I didn't like the direction of the smoke yesterday. It went from a few hundred to a few thousand overnight.

Looks like 2 large fires and a 3rd potentially on the res just south and west of Ruidoso; Southfork, Salt and now Penn Scott just west across 70 from the Salt.

Praying for the people of these small towns and all the fire fighters that they may see some quick relief.

 

[sandycreek12]

thats no good.. things were looking up after the blue fire too

 

[Muleman]

This is a bad one, whole town on evacuation , hundreds of houses burnt. It’s amazing that they did save some last night. Hats off to those who worked there asses off last night. A friend saw neighbors house still standing at 7am this morning and it burnt down later int the morning from hot spots. Today is a big day hope they got tankers by the dozens getting on the fire and can get it in check

 

[muleybeast]

Man so freaking sad. God Bless them. Prayers.

 

[Triple7]

Any updates this evening ? Sounds like rain may be coming tomorrow- I hope. Unfortunately sounds like a lot of structures have been lost.

 

[sandycreek12]

looks like 1400 structures lost..

 

[Slick8]

That's heart breaking to hear.

Praying for the community.

 

[PerezA]

Super sad deal, heard two elderly people passed away, arresting people who are looting, 1400 estimate structures have been damaged, 16.2k + acres. Looks like the wind is gonna come from the south east today, hopefully it pushes the southfork into the blue burn and it dies out, hopefully the salt doesn’t get pushed into town with the new winds. What a mess and very sad for how many homes have been lost, my sisters place is about half a mile from the fire line near Alto, her state trooper friend checked on her house and said it was still there. Praying for all effected

 

[Slick8]

Dang, hate to hear that.
This fire grew so quickly people had to drop what they were doing and run.