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South Overflow Wetlands Rx Review 2022

  • Incident Information:

    South Overflow Wetlands Declared Wildfire Review.pdf

  • Location:

    New Mexico

  • Date:

    04/07/2022

  • Incident Type:

    Wildfire Declaration

  • Description:

    On April 7, 2022, at 1130 the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Pecos District, Fire Management Program initiated a planned 330-acre prescribed broadcast burn on a portion of the South Overflow Wetland unit (type 2) on BLM public lands in the Roswell Field Office, New Mexico. After the fire escaped the planned prescribed burn boundary, the prescribed fire burn boss declared a wildfire, per direction in the burn plan and in consultation with the district fire management officer and agency administrator.

    Escaped Prescribed Fire, Prescribed Fire, Fire Behavior

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