By PAUL DAVENPORT and CEDAR ATTANASIOyesterday
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The Calf Fire burns northwest of Las Vegas in San Miguel County Friday, April 22, 2022. Destructive Southwest fires have burned dozens of homes in northern Arizona and put numerous small villages in New Mexico in the path of danger, as wind-fueled flames chewed up wide swaths of tinder dry forest and grassland and towering plumes of smoke filled the sky.(Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)
New Mexico faces a long and potentially devastating wildfire season, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Saturday, as Southwestern wildfires cause destruction and force people from their homes.
Hundreds of structures were lost in a growing number of wind-driven blazes across drought-stricken New Mexico, Lujan Grisham said Saturday.
Over 20 active wildfires were burning in at least 16 of the state’s 33 counties, in the wake of winds that gusted up to 90 mph (145 kph) on Friday, Lujan said during a briefing streamed online. “So half the state has a fire issue.”
With so many fires burning in April, well before the normal May or June start of the wildfire season, “our risk season is incredibly and dangerously early,” Lujan Grisham said.
Wildfire has become a year-round threat in the West given changing conditions that include earlier snowmelt and rain coming later in the fall, scientist have said. The problems have been exacerbated by decades of fire suppression and poor management along with a more than 20-year megadrought that studies link to human-caused climate change.
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New Mexico as of Saturday had the most major wildfires burning of any state, though neighboring Arizona also had large fires that included one that burned 30 homes near Flagstaff on Tuesday.
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Why dont we ever hear anymore how the fire started; pretty sure it wasnt ” spontaneous combustion” or lightning strikes( yet)????
And we rarely hear the results of ” the origin of the fire is under investigation” .
My suspicion( yup, I’m very cynical these days), is that nobody has the courage to tell it like it is:
that ignorant, careless, destructive humans are causing these firestorms by campfires, fireworks, shooting, construction, etc.
And human- caused climate catastrophe( droughts, winds) is turning them into hellush conflagrations.
All the while mainstream media( Caesar) keeps on playing the fiddle of ” entertainment” while Rome burns( literally).😔
Even if lightning strikes started them, humans are responsible for the climate change that brought on the early fire seasons…
I agree 100000%!