A prescribed fire ignited on May 21, 50 miles west of Raton, New Mexico, planned to be 600 acres, escaped on May 23 when it was too windy to fly air tankers and has now burned 3,800 acres. It has crossed the state line and scorched about 40 acres in Colorado. The name of the fire is H12. The prescribed fire was on the Vermejo Park Ranch a few miles south of the Colorado border.
Today they are transitioning from Kyle Sahd’s Type 3 incident management team to Pruett Small’s Type 2 team. In New Mexico the fire is in the jurisdiction of the Cimarron District, New Mexico State Forestry.
