At tonight’s community meeting, the Type 1 fire team led by Dugger Hughes passed the torch to Roy Hall’s team, which specializes in the patient monitoring of longer-term fires. Dugger joined Buck Wickham, District Ranger Bill Edwards, and others in updating the community and in … Continue readingWind Coming to the Horseshoe Fire
After this evening’s community meeting about the Horseshoe Fire, I’ll post another fire update here. It has spread only a little since the last update, and most of the recent burning has been in the interior of the new burn. Noel, Fran and Dick up … Continue readingButterflies in the High Chiricahuas
Firefighters contending with the Horseshoe Fire achieved 25% containment when water drops were successful in stopping the fire’s advance across the upper South Fork drainage. Today’s huge plume of smoke (the biggest yet seen during this fire) resulted from the fire’s run upslope in the … Continue readingBig Smoke from the Horseshoe Fire
Yellow Grosbeak on Ocotillo north of Rodeo NM (Photo by Mel Moe) Our neighbor, Mel Moe, called this morning to report that a male Yellow Grosbeak, only rarely seen in the US, visited water in his yard early today. He sent these photos of the … Continue readingA Yellow Grosbeak––Yippee!
For those of you trying to put the location of the fire into the context of the larger region, here is another map!
Yellow and yellow-orange areas show the spread of Horseshoe Fire during morning and afternoon of June 3, 2010. Most recently the Horseshoe Fire has been spreading north and east, touching the bottom of Log Canyon in a couple of spots. Log Canyon is a major … Continue readingHorseshoe Fire Enters Log Canyon
Last night’s fire update in the Portal Rescue classroom was again a valuable exercise in explaining what has been accomplished toward containing the fire, and what we can anticipate. Portaleños packed the place, listened, asked questions, and aired concerns. So far, the fire in South … Continue readingNow We Wait
I should also note that Helen and I were told by firefighters that they are continuing to see illegal immigrants, by day and by night (through night-vision binoculars), who are traversing the Chiricahua Mountains, even as they burn, even through the newly-burned region. If you … Continue readingFire Not Deterring Illegal Immigrants
Last night smoke from the Horseshoe Fire made sleep difficult. When the smoke eased, I slept in––until a phone call from Helen Snyder had me out of bed and out the door in 15 minutes! We met Jim Payne and Ron Kaczor, both public information … Continue readingSouth Fork Today: the Horseshoe Fire
Here’s a very quick update for you: Alan and I headed up canyon again and, with Noel Snyder, evacuated much of the cabin of absent friends. We’ll return tomorrow to finish the job. A firefighter clearing brush at the cabin said that the fire is … Continue readingHorseshoe Fire on Memorial Day