Big Springs Fire
Location: Manzano Mountains, 6 miles W of Tajique, 18 mi E of Valencia, Torrance Co. NM
Specific location: Lat 34° 46′ 15″ Lon 106° 22′ 59″
Date of Origin: 06/24/2008
Cause: Lightning
Situation as of 08/10/08 5:00 AM
Total Personnel: 4
Size: 5,478 acres
Percent Contained: 100%
Costs to Date: $3,327,810
Structures Destroyed: 6 residences , 10 outbuildings
Suppression rehab of the fire perimeter continues. The fire has received a significant amount of precipitation.
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Situation as of 07/02/08 8:30 AM
Total Personnel: 245
Size: 5,478 acres
Percent Contained: 100%
Type 1 Management will transfer command to Type 4 Management at 1800, 7/03.
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Situation as of 06/30/08 6:00 PM
Total Personnel: 353
Size: 5,580 acres
Percent Contained: 95%
Costs to Date: $2,683,773
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Situation as of 06/29/08 6:00 PM
Total Personnel: 417
Size: 5,580 acres
Percent Contained: 85%
Costs to Date: $2,260,000
The fire area received 0.1 to 0.5 inches of rain yesterday evening. Line was completed around the entire perimeter today. Residents were allowed to return home as the evacuations were lifted. Demob of resources has begun. More rain is expected over the fire area this evening.
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Situation as of 06/28/08 6:00 PM
Total Personnel: 542
Size: 5,580 acres
Percent Contained: 65%
Costs to Date: $1,750,000
Structures Destroyed: 6 residences , 10 outbuildings
Line was completed around all but 0.5 miles of the perimeter. Completed successful burnout on the south portion of the fire. Torrance County completed the damage assessment for structures lost.
It is expected that evacuations will be lifted tomorrow. Increase in structures lost reflects the results from the damage assessment. No structures were lost this operational period. Fire is beginning to receive rain.
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Situation as of 06/27/08 7:00 AM
Total Personnel: 428
Size: 3,500 acres
Percent Contained: 10%
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Situation as of 06/24/08 7:00 PM
Total Personnel: 100+
Size: 100 acres
Percent Contained: 0%
Structures Threatened: 60 PRIM , 15 OUTB. Evacuation of the Inlow Youth Camp.
Thank you Erik. Please keep us posted.
by Brett
Could we get a link to a fire perimeter map for the Big Springs Fire? InciWeb appears to be down currently. 3000+ acres now.
Brett, the perimeter is changing as we virtually speak.
And unfortunately, InciWeb has been down for most of June, for one reason or another, allegedly because their server is too small, which sounds fishy to me. Adding server capacity takes about an hour, or less if you have the latest drag-and-drop virtual server technology.
GEOMAC Wildfire Viewer has fairly good maps (see righthand sidebar under Fire Links). GEOMAC is slow, but if you select your fire and zoom in repeatedly, eventually a map will appear, sometimes.
Google Earth has pretty good maps. Google Earth is free for the download, and useful in many ways, as well as fun. Their fire overlays are here:
activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/kml/conus.kmz
The Lat/Lon coordinates are listed for most fires, and those can help with finding the general vicinity with Google Earth. Sometimes the coordinates issued by the govt reports are not quite right, but they are close (in some cases they are for the Ranger Station, not the fire).
But in all cases it takes a few hours (days) for the mappers to upload the maps. It’s not a real time function (yet).
by Brett
Thanks, Mike. GeoMac is what I was after. No perimeter display online as of yet, no doubt for the reason you’ve stated. Noting a number of additional SW fires (outside of CA) that I’ve up to now been in the dark on.
The best source I know of for info on active SW fires is [here].
http://gacc.nifc.gov/swcc/predictive/intelligence/intelligence.htm
And I just added a GACC Link site to the Fire Links. The Geographic Area Coordination Centers provide detailed site reports for fires in various regions around the country, usually once a day in a morning report.
Appears that the Big Springs fire has taken off and is now over 2,000 acres.