近距离内射合集

A lightning-caused wildfire that swelled from an estimated 10 acres on Aug. 4 to nearly 8,000 acres this week in the Pecos Wilderness of the Santa Fe National Forest stopped growing for the first time in at least five days on Wednesday.

In a Thursday morning video update posted to social media, Forest Service Operations Manager Jason Flores reported that crews took advantage of more moderate fire behavior Wednesday to inch toward 1% containment of the blaze.

Containment refers to the percentage by which a fire鈥檚 outer perimeter has been surrounded by a physical barrier, such as trenches dug by firefighters, roads, cleared brush or natural features such as rivers and rock formations, according to Forest Service spokesman Sean McNearney.

Firefighters on Thursday continued reinforcing the western and northwestern edges of the Frijoles Fire, which has grown since the weekend toward the small communities of Cundiy贸, Cerro Pi帽on, Chimay贸 and Cordova, as well as the 2,650-acre Gorham Boy Scout Ranch.

鈥淩esources are going to continue to do indirect confinement strategy, prepping around the Gorham Boy Scout Ranch in and around the southern end and continuing on up and around the community of Cundiyo and prepping around there,鈥� Flores said. 鈥淯tilization of dozers and mastication work over in that vicinity.鈥�

Firefighters are using Forest Road 306 to the north, Forest Road 424 to the west as existing barriers to advance containment of the Frijoles Fire, which remains the largest fire burning in the state.

After a wildfire has been contained, it may consume natural fuels and go out on its own, but when fires threaten homes and other structures, crews will take more aggressive measures to extinguish the most hazardous fronts directly.

鈥淲e are looking at some direct extinguishment strategies over here on this portion of the incident here when the opportunity arises to do so,鈥� Flores said, pointing toward the western and northwestern portions of a map of the fire.

McNearney told the Journal earlier this week that the fire鈥檚 rapid growth compared to over a dozen other lightning-caused fires in New Mexico state forests late this summer can be partly attributed to the fire鈥檚 remote origins high in the Pecos Wilderness east of Namb茅.

While most wildfires are caused by humans in areas the Forest Service and state forestry agencies have increasingly targeted with strategic forest thinning projects, lightning strikes can occur in hard-to-reach areas still choked with dead and downed debris.

Before reported acreage held steady on Wednesday, the Frijoles Fire had nearly quadrupled in size since Sunday, sending smoke wafting into communities as distant as Santa Fe and Taos.

Firefighters and nearby communities hope forecasts calling for precipitation in coming days will bear out, assisting crews battling the fire in northern New Mexico.

John Miller is the 近距离内射合集鈥檚 northern New Mexico correspondent. He can be reached at jmiller@abqjournal.com.