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US Forest slot Service crews completed a pile burn in the Santa Fe National Forest about 17 miles west of the town of Las Vegas, New Mexico. Somewhere in that pile of burnt slash and woody debris, embers would continue to slowly burn for the next nine weeks.
Then, on April 9, a fire sprang back to life from the pile.
Those embers had stayed dormant from the depths of winter until being reawakened in early April. They would go on to grow into the Calf Canyon fire, which would later merge with another wildfire linked to a prescribed burn. The combined Calf Canyon and Hermit's Peak fire complex has since expanded to over 314,000 acres to become the wildfire with the largest footprint currently burning in the United States, and the biggest in New Mexico history.
As of Friday, the Forest Service, which is part of the federal Department of Agriculture, has now accepted responsibility for both fires that merged into the massive inferno continuing to torch a corridor spanning mountain forests, small villages and over 40 miles.
US Forest slot Service crews completed a pile burn in the Santa Fe National Forest about 17 miles west of the town of Las Vegas, New Mexico. Somewhere in that pile of burnt slash and woody debris, embers would continue to slowly burn for the next nine weeks.
Then, on April 9, a fire sprang back to life from the pile.
Those embers had stayed dormant from the depths of winter until being reawakened in early April. They would go on to grow into the Calf Canyon fire, which would later merge with another wildfire linked to a prescribed burn. The combined Calf Canyon and Hermit's Peak fire complex has since expanded to over 314,000 acres to become the wildfire with the largest footprint currently burning in the United States, and the biggest in New Mexico history.
As of Friday, the Forest Service, which is part of the federal Department of Agriculture, has now accepted responsibility for both fires that merged into the massive inferno continuing to torch a corridor spanning mountain forests, small villages and over 40 miles.
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