Firefighters from the Silver City Fire Department and the Pinos Altos Volunteer Fire Department were dispatched to a grass fire on Coleman Drive near Little Walnut Road at approximately noon on Sunday, June 18.
According to SCFD Chief Milo Lambert, the fire was also in the treetops of cottonwoods in the area. No structures were threatened and no injuries reported. Lambert said fire suppression personnel left the scene about 3:30 p.m., after extinguishing the fire.
However, no sooner had they returned to base, when firefighters from the SCFD were called out again, at about 5:30 p.m., together with Whiskey Creek and Tyrone volunteer fire departments, to a single-wide mobile home at 1450 Highway 90 that was engulfed in flames.