View on Saturday of the Laguna Wildfire. Courtesy/SFNF

SFNF News:

Crews are continuing firing operations on the east side of the Laguna Wildfire, working west to FR 169, in the Coyote Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF).

To conduct a firing operation, firefighters cut away vegetation to make a line of bare soil ahead of a fire and then, using aerial and hand ignitions, burn the vegetation between that line and the actively burning fire front.

Aerial ignition will continue to be used to reduce fire intensity and to minimize firefighter exposure to ground hazards. Control lines being utilized include existing roads and natural barriers.

The fire behavior is characterized as a low-intensity ground fire with isolated and group torching. Fuels being consumed include heavy dead and down wood, as well as tussock moth-killed mixed conifers.

Learn more at https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/incide…/nmsnf-laguna-wildfire.