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Residents of the southern New Mexico village of Ruidoso were ordered to flee their homes Monday without even taking time to grab any belongings due to a fast-moving wildfire.

"GO NOW: Do not attempt to gather belongings or protect your home. Evacuate immediately," officials with Ruidoso, home to 7,000 people, said on its website and in social media posts at about 7 p.m.

Public Service Company of New Mexico shut off electricity to part of the village due to the fire, which had grown to at least 2 square miles at the time the evacuation was ordered, KOAT-TV reported. The utility said it cut power to some 2,000 homes and businesses but they should have cleared out anyway.

CBS Albuquerque affiliate KRQE-TV reported that Ruidoso officials said there was hot ash from the fire falling in parts of the nearby community of Alto. People were being asked to call 911 if they saw any hot ash spots or active flames.

State Police in southern New Mexico said they were experiencing phone outages that might impact emergency responses to emergencies.

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My folks left town the day before and dodged the danger.   Fires are not uncommon around there, but this one looks to do some serious damage to the city itself.  A lot of friends and family have lost their homes and many more are in Roswell, or back in the panhandle with family, waiting to hear if their homes are lost.  It's basically a satellite Texas town, for those who don't know it.  

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Wife's family has a house there. Haven't been able to get in touch with anyone. Finally got a text from a neighbor that said the fire has moved on and the house has only some "slight burned area" on the back. Not exactly sure what that means. "Slight burning" doesn't sound good--but could be a lot worse I guess. Will find out soon enough. 

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30 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Spent a month there a few summers ago.  Really nice place, except for the fact that once Memorial Day hit, it got swarmed with Tech grads.

Yeah, the Ruidoso area and up around Red River are two places in New Mexico dominated by West Texans. It's close, convenient, and pretty affordable. I checked in with a buddy earlier this afternoon who moved his family up to Cloudcroft a couple of years ago (he lives part-time there while spending the rest of the time working in the Permian Basin). Anyway, he said the fire appears to be heading away from them and so far smoke-free, but their place is on a steep slope and surrounded by pine trees, so he's keeping a close eye on it.

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40 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Spent a month there a few summers ago.  Really nice place, except for the fact that once Memorial Day hit, it got swarmed with Tech grads.

Are you still experiencing a different kind of burning sensation?

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Was there the week of Memorial Day this year, stayed with a buddy at their "cabin" - really a 5 bedroom/4 bath/2900 square foot vacation home. It was awesome.

Just heard their cabin burned down in this fire. 

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My dad said someone set the fires and they caught them….   He also reports things he reads on Facebook as fact so I don’t trust that info. lol.  They had a condo there until a couple years ago.  

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36 minutes ago, Hook1997 said:

My dad said someone set the fires and they caught them….   He also reports things he reads on Facebook as fact so I don’t trust that info. lol.  They had a condo there until a couple years ago.  

What I read from a weatherman who was posting said it was started by lighting. Don't know what is accurate, if anything. 

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16 minutes ago, Pods said:

Fire map looking like it's August already. 

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How the hell is that much of Florida on fire? It's a fucking swamp. 

If these idiots would just rake their forests none of this would be happening.

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Here's what's burned so far. The top one, as far as I can tell, was from last month and is no longer active.

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Poorly written article says 500 structures in one paragraph and 1,400 in another. Maybe each figure is for the separate fires. I can't tell, but either way, that's a lot of homes, condos, cabins, and barns for this small town and surrounding area.

Two fires threatening the community of Ruidoso expanded Tuesday, June 18, affecting at least 500 structures and prompting a second evacuation order, this time for the neighboring City of Ruidoso Downs.

The South Fork Fire burning to the west and north of the village grew to about 15,300 acres by mid-afternoon, with 1,400 structures reported lost, according to the New Mexico Forestry Division. The Salt Fire, burning to the south, totaled about 5,500 acres.

Both were 0 percent contained by 9 p.m. Tuesday. KOB-TV and Source New Mexico reported at least one death has resulted from the fires.

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Radar indicates some rain in the area. Hopefully, Mother Nature is doing her bit.

Current webcam from Ruidoso: https://www.ruidoso.net/visitor-information/ruidoso-midtown-webcam

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2 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

Yes. Okeechobee area was burning pretty steady March thru May this year pretty steady. 

The best thing that could happen to the Everglades and the waters around the keys would be to burn all that cane to the ground, till it over, and replant native grasses. 

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Wife’s family place survived but the house behind it is gone and the vacant lot next to it burned up. Aunt sent video and showed a corner of the house charred. That is wild to me. Thanks to the firefighters for stopping it literally as the flames were licking the structure. In the video, you can see where someone created a 3 foot fire line between the house and the vacant lot. That effort by some unnamed person likely saved the house. Here’s to you New Mexico Fire Fighter. 

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Balls.  Only crazy people run into a burning building.

Donations up all day at the Wally World at Montana and Joe Battle.  Help those Apaches out or they might declare another war.

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Welp, it appears my parent's cabin up at Alto burned down. They just bought it about six months ago. They were excited to spend a summer up there.  Boo.

Luckily it was a vacation place. My heart goes out to everyone who lost a place up there. It is going to take YEARS to rebuild in a community that small and remote.

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On 6/23/2024 at 3:37 PM, HookEm said:

Welp, it appears my parent's cabin up at Alto burned down. They just bought it about six months ago. They were excited to spend a summer up there.  Boo.

Luckily it was a vacation place. My heart goes out to everyone who lost a place up there. It is going to take YEARS to rebuild in a community that small and remote.

Yep.  Grand County in CO lost ~350 houses in the East Troublesome fire back in October 2020.  We still haven't gotten everyone rebuilt.  Lots of folks underinsured, too, because of construction costs that are through the roof.

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JFC...

A severe weather cell that is causing flash flooding has prompted emergency evacuation orders from the village's emergency management department.

A social media posting by the Ruidoso Office of Emergency Management has ordered residents of the Upper Canyon and Midtown district to move to higher ground without delay and without gathering any belongings.

 

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The New Mexico Army National Guard has rescued several people who were stranded as flooding hit Ruidoso this weekend.

On Saturday, members of the New Mexico Army National Guard rescued 4 elderly residents from Ruidoso.

The National Guard says soldiers from the 920th Engineer Company were moving heavy machinery out of a creek when 4 people signaled to soldiers they were in distress.

Soldiers crossed rising waters to help get the elderly residents to higher ground and evacuate their home.

Minutes after that rescue took place, the water rose 6 feet and flooded the evacuated home.

As flash flooding rushed through Ruidoso on Sunday, the National Guard rescued at least 45 people out of flooded areas in Ruidoso.

 

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2 hours ago, rage-a-holic said:

for fucks sake, why does god hate Ruidoso so much? 

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7 hours ago, Braff Zacklin said:

First catastrophic fires and now flash floods? What's next--a plague of locusts? Pharaoh, let his people go!

 

Seriously, though, what are the odds? Talk about a tough year...

Burn scar flooding. The fires make it so the soil won't absorb water.

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3 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Burn scar flooding. The fires make it so the soil won't absorb water.

It was also epic rain -- like 6 inches plus.  That's gonna make for massive flooding in that area whether there had been a fire or not.

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4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

It was also epic rain -- like 6 inches plus.  That's gonna make for massive flooding in that area whether there had been a fire or not.

Yep, those SW Monsoons ain't fucking around. When that rain comes down, it comes down in a hurry. Starts raining like Houston with very little warning. Even with normal vegetation and soils, massive amounts of water glance right off the surface into the arroyos. It's so much worse after fires. 

My heart breaks for the people of Ruidoso. This is a nightmare and monsoon season just got started. 

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On 7/1/2024 at 3:23 PM, Schulz2.0 said:

Burn scar flooding. The fires make it so the soil won't absorb water.

Yep. Destroys the root structure that holds everything in place. So it all just slides off. Same thing in California. 

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