Albuquerque Fire Rescue: Mobile home, multiple vehicles a ‘total loss’ after fire

VIDEO: A mobile home and multiple vehicles burned to the ground Saturday morning in southeast Albuquerque. According to Albuquerque Fire Rescue, firefighters were dispatched around 3:52 a.m. to a vacant mobile home near the 6600 block of Cochiti SE. Firefighters were able to knock out the fire within 18 minutes. No one was hurt. According to investigators, the fire was unintentional and likely due to “unsheltered individual activity.” Officials say no one was displaced.
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Mt. Taylor, Magdalena and Mountainair Ranger Districts to Conduct Prescribed Fire to Reduce Hazardous Fuels

Cibola National Forest and National Grasslands fire crews are preparing to strategically implement multiple prescribed fires in the coming weeks to reduce hazardous fuels pending suitable conditions. Prescribed fires are utilized to remove hazardous fuels, return nutrients to the soil and improve forest health. Fuels specialists write prescribed burn plans that identify – or prescribe – the best conditions under which trees and other plants will burn to get the best results safely. Burn plans consider temperature, humidity, wind, moisture of the vegetation and conditions for dispersal smoke. With fire there is smoke, but firefighters take measures to reduce smoke impacts as much as possible.
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