Valles Caldera Prescribed Burn Planned for Monday
VALLES CALDERA News:
The Valles Caldera Trust will implement a prescribed burn project that will begin Monday, Sept. 24 and possibly run through Wednesday, Sept. 26 if weather and associated conditions permit.
The prescribed burn will be on the Valles Caldera National Preserve, south of N.M. 4 near mile marker 30.
Because of the location and elevation, smoke from the burn will be visible from all directions coming into the Jemez Mountains area.
The burn is the final stage of a project to reduce fire hazard and improve forest health.
The area has been thinned and most of the Read More
Mosquito Dunks Available to Local Residents
COUNTY News:
Worried about mosquitoes and the West Nile virus lurking in the perennial puddles and soggy spots in your yard?
The Los Alamos County Parks Division has “mosquito dunks” available to the public at no cost.
The dunks are effective treatment for the elimination of mosquito larvae in standing water.
The dunks are available at the Parks Division Office located in the Pajarito Cliff Sites Complex, Building 5.
For additional information, call the Parks Division at 662-8159. Read More
Visitors Suffer Heat Related Illness at Bandelier
Courtesy/NPS
BANDELIER News:
Today at approximately 2:45 p.m., Bandelier National Monument rangers responded to a report of two visitors from England suffering from what appeared to be heat exhaustion at the top of Alcove House located on the Main Loop Trail in Frijoles Canyon.
Bandelier staff called the Los Alamos Fire Department Technical Rescue Team from Station 5 to assist in evacuating the couple from the top of the steep trail.
The severity of the couple’s heat related illness was lessened by two visitors, one a physician from Taos and the other a nurse, who provided medical assistance Read More
Bandelier Assesses Paint Spill Effects on Park
A tractor-trailer rig traveling eastbound on N.M. 4, northwest of the junction of N.M. 4 and 501, missed a sharp curve and fell about 200 feet down a steep slope into Bandelier Tuesday spewing paint in all directions. CourtesyNPS
BANDELIER News:
Bandelier National Monument Park staff is in the process of identifying the toxicity of the paint and assessing its impacts to the environment that was splattered in the forest Tuesday when a tractor-trailer rig traveling eastbound on New Mexico State Highway 4, northwest of the junction of N.M. 4 and 501, missed a sharp curve and fell about 200 feet down Read More
Minor Injuries Reported in Two-Vehicle Crash
Photo: Los Alamos Police Department Crash Team
Staff report
A two-vehicle collision this afternoon sent a Los Alamos woman to the hospital with what appear to be minor injuries.
Los Alamos Fire Department EMTs transported Deborah Storms, 46, to Los Alamos Medical Center after the red 2011 Subaru she was driving collided with another vehicle near Trinity Drive and 4th Street.
Los Alamos Police Cpl. Ben Hinrichs told the Los Alamos Daily Post that a 17-year-old Espanola girl was driving a white 2003 Dodge Dakota east on Trinity Drive about 3:30 p.m. today when she attempted to make a right turn onto Read More
