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Cerro Pelado

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Unit Information

New Mexico 
Santa Fe, 
87508 
New Mexico 
Santa Fe, 
87508 

Incident Contacts

  • Santa Fe National Forest
    Phone:
    505-438-5300
    Hours:
    M-F 8:00 am to 4:30 pm
  • Jemez Ranger District
    Phone:
    575-829-3535
    Hours:
    M-F 8:00 am to 4:30 pm

Photographs Gallery

Night firing operations are critical to preventing the fire's spread. Its is safer for firefighters and better for the forest to preform burnout operations at night when lower temperatures and higher humidity cause less intense fire activity.

Always best to keep the saw ready to go before you take a break.

Several crews and multiple engines are working the night shift.

Firefighters observe fire behavior on their division.

Dead and downed fuels are consumed as the fire backs toward the highway.

Fire backing over crest of a ridge shot from air-tactical airplane.

Crews have been working diligently to hold the fire along Hwy 4