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Ty's Take September's hitting us with the usual mix of infrastructure fixes and community upkeep, which is exactly how a town like this tends to operate when the summer fire season finally backs off. The state's paving NM 96, the utilities board is working
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire holding at 59 percent containment while interior pockets still smolder is the kind of news that keeps people on the hill from sleeping soundly these days, and Tuesday's special meeting between our County Council and the commissioners and councilors down in
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Ty's Take Labor Day weekend's shaping up busier than usual up here, what with a 40-ton crane rolling through town Monday and the gas company venting on the same day, all while fire season still has its grip on the plateau. The Frijoles Fire'
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Ty's Take You can read a lot into what a town chooses to worry about on any given week, and right now the Lab is modeling bacteriophage therapy while the state's launching another DWI campaign and firefighters are working the Frijoles Fire up in the mountains.
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Ty's Take Word came down this week that the Secretary of Energy showed up at the Urenco groundbreaking on the hill, which tells you something about where the Lab's work sits in the national calculus these days. Meanwhile, down in Guatemala, NNSA and DTRA were pulling
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire sitting at fifty-five percent containment on the plateau reminds this town why September always feels like holding your breath. We've watched what happens when these mountains burn, watched the Cerro Grande scars still visible from the roads, watched what Las
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Ty's Take There's a fire running 52 percent contained on 15,226 acres and traffic backing up near the tunnels, which means this week the plateau is reminding us again that we live in a place where things can turn serious fast. Meanwhile, the Forest Service
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Ty's Take A Los Alamos firefighter died supporting operations on the Frijoles Fire, and while we don't yet know the full circumstances, the loss hits different up here on the plateau. This town has watched the Cerro Grande and Las Conchas burns reshape how we think
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire is at 45 percent containment as of Sunday, and that's progress worth noting on the plateau, but the news came with a hard reminder that fighting fire in these mountains costs more than sweat and equipment. A member of the fire
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire is still grinding through the Jemez at over 15,000 acres, and by now most of us on the hill have our go-bags ready and our evacuation routes memorized, which is what you do after Cerro Grande and Las Conchas taught this
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire sat at better than a third contained by Friday evening, nearly a thousand personnel working the Jemez ridges in what amounts to a familiar nightmare for anyone who lived through Cerro Grande or Las Conchas. Those fires rewired how this town thinks about
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Ty's Take The USDA's move to strip back roadless restrictions in the Jemez makes sense on paper if you're worried about fuel loads and fire breaks, but up here on the plateau we've seen what happens when you open forest roads to