4/2/2023 0 Comments Weatherbug albuquerqueAlbuquerque, New Mexico | Current Weather Forecasts, Live Radar Maps & News | WeatherBug Today 's Weather - Albuquerque, NM 7:10 AM BIG I - For a full list of weather -related closures and delays around New Mexico. According to the press release, a dust storm extended. The pilot of the craft was among the dead, police said. The next storm will bring more gusty wind to southern New Mexico Wednesday, with wind. (See the area of the fire here.) Rio Grande Elementary School has been opened as an evacuation shelter.F. Miguel says he also saw a freight train rolling through the area despite flames on both sides of the tracks.ĭan Ware, at the State Forestry Division, told the Associated Press that high winds are fanning the blaze, which is the largest of four burning in Valencia County. Across New Mexico 304 from where they waited, flames threatened their home. She has asthma and her husband has emphysema. "I just wonder if there's any ambulance around to get some oxygen," resident Brigitte Montgomery told Miguel as she waited in choking smoke in a church parking lot near the evacuated mobile home park. The evacuation was called for as heavy smoke blew through the area, according to Clara Garcia of the Valencia Newsbulletin, who is also on the scene. The result is a towering column of smoke blotting out the sun in Rio Communities as the fire consumes yellowed undergrowth in the bosque, according Miguel. The National Weather Service is reporting sustained winds of 30 miles per hour with gusts to 40. The fire has forced the evacuation of the Vista del Rio mobile home park in Rio Communities. Update 5:30 p.m.: The parking lot of the Church of Latter Day Saints Rio Communities Chapel, where Journal Staff Writer Miguel Navrot and a number of bosque fire evacuees had gathered, is being evacuated, Miguel tells me, because of fear that a nearby gas station may go up in flames.įire is billowing out of the bosque between Belen and Rio Communities, according to Miguel, who is on the scene of the first bosque fire of the season. (When I checked a few minutes ago, the Weatherbug was reporting peak gusts of 47 mph.) You can check out live conditions at Belen Middle School via Weatherbug. Miguel is at the Square D Training Stables, a horse ranch about three miles south of Belen, where firefighters are battling to save a structure while caretakers hurry to evacuate the horses.Ħ:07 p.m.: The National Weather Service is now reporting wind gusts to 51 miles per hour at the Albuquerque airport, which is about 30 miles north of the fire scene. That's the latest from Journal staff writer Miguel Navrot.Ħ:33 p.m.: "They have no idea when they're going to knock this thing down." That's the word from Journal staff writer Miguel Navrot, out on the scene of the bosque fire still burning out of control along the Rio Grande near and south of Belen. Evacuees remain huddled, waiting for news on whether they've lost everything. The main bridge in Belen, River Road, is open. 47 - from River Road - is open again, but it's still closed to south-bound traffic. Bill Richardson has ordered all state agencies to deliver any help that is needed to fight the fire or aid residents.ħ:45 pm: North-bound N.M. Eddy Huddleston said that, if the lot he was staying on "is burned out, then I don't know where we're going to go."Ĩ:49 pm: The Governor's Office says the Belen Fire has grown to 700 acres and forced the evacuation of a mobile-home park. One man staying in a motor home near the river believes his family may end up homeless. Reports on how much has burned vary from 500 to 700 acres, or a roughly three-mile stretch along the river. 9:17 pm: Firefighters believe they have stopped the Belen Fire from growing.
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