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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire is sitting at just over 13,000 acres with containment creeping toward a third of the perimeter, which on the Pajarito Plateau means folks up here are watching the weather and the afternoon winds the way other towns watch interest rates. Spike camps
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Ty's Take Fire season is here, and it's running the show again. Multiple lightning strikes across the Pajarito plateau this week, crews scrambling up the mountain, the Frijoles fire already pushing toward thirteen thousand acres up in the national forest. For anyone who was here in
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Ty's Take There's a Frijoles Fire burning 11,335 acres in the Jemez with nine percent containment, which in this town means everybody's watching the weather and checking evacuation zones whether they'll admit it or not. We've got long memories
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire is up to better than nine thousand acres now, 656 people working it, and we're sitting at twelve percent containment on a Monday morning. That number will move, one way or another, depending on what the weather does the rest of
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire started small on the Pajarito Plateau Saturday and by evening had burned nearly nine thousand acres with a dozen percent contained and over five hundred personnel throwing everything at it. That's the language people here know by heart, the math that
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire sitting at over 8,000 acres and zero containment is the only story that matters this week, and if you've lived here since Cerro Grande or watched the ash from Las Conchas settle on your roof, you already know that. The
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire sitting at nearly 8,000 acres and zero containment is the kind of number that makes every long-timer on this plateau stop and look at the scars from Cerro Grande and Las Conchas all over again. We've been lucky this
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Ty's Take Smoke rolling into White Rock and the Frijoles Fire sitting at 6,214 acres with zero containment as of Tuesday evening has a way of sharpening the focus around here. Anyone who lived through Cerro Grande or watched Las Conchas work its way across the ridges
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire sitting at over 4,000 acres with zero containment and families evacuating down in Santa Fe County is exactly the kind of August morning that gets people on the plateau paying attention to their go-bags and their weather radio. We've
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Ty's Take By Sunday evening the Frijoles Fire had run to 3,000 acres with zero containment, smoke was rolling into the plateau, and folks around here knew exactly what that meant: the memory of Cerro Grande and Las Conchas doesn't fade on the Pajarito, it
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire has doubled in size overnight, now sitting at a thousand acres with zero containment, and folks in Cundiyo and Cerro Piño are getting evacuation notices pushed to their phones. We've been here before, twice in the last generation, and this plateau
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Ty's Take The lightning fires popping up across the Santa Fe National Forest this week hit a nerve up here on the plateau, the way they always do. Folks around Los Alamos remember 2000 and 2011 like they were yesterday, and when you see smoke in the Pecos