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The supply line caused 21,000 hectares of mogote hill fire, which is now under control

The supply line caused 21,000 hectares of mogote hill fire, which is now under control

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By Patrick Lohmann, Source New Mexico

According to a spokesman for the state forestry, a rapidly moving running fire near the Wagon hill, which was inflamed on Friday, is now under control, and the investigators also found that a supply line was the cause.

According to the shipping records, the Mogote Hill Fire in the north of New Mexico grew to 21,300 acres. That is a little more than 33 square miles.

The grass fire ignited on Friday on Friday shortly after 12 p.m. under dry conditions and strong winds and prompted evacuation orders along a nearby state road. Several state crews reacted and made considerable progress over the weekend. The rainfall over the running fire also helped, said George Ducker, spokesman for forestry, in an explanation enriched by e -mail.

The threat to some structures in the region has passed and evacuation orders are no longer in force, said Ducker.

Ducker said Quelle New Mexico said he did not know who was the supply line that triggered the fire and referred the problem for a comment to the Sheriff office of the Mora County, which had not replied by publication on Monday morning.

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Rural electrical cooperatives have most of the supply lines in this area.

In this legislative meeting, the legislators consider the house law 334, which would eliminate liability for rural electrical cooperatives that trigger a forest fire as long as they have submitted forest fire reduction plans for approval of the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission.

The legislator has announced Source New Mexico that the draft law is an attempt to complain that small electrical cooperatives prevent bankruptcies that usually have little money available, especially with strong wind events during the continued drought.

At an interim-legislative Finance Committee last summer, Rep. Joe Sanchez (D-Alcalde) said a lawsuit against the Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative, in which Sanchez used to work, had to pay $ 25 million for his role in Las Conchas Fire 2011.

The amount of the risk cooperatives from forest fire complaints limits the amount of insurance that you can secure, and after the Las Conchas fire can only receive the cooperative $ 2 million to $ 3 million.

“Each lawsuit would put the cooperatives bankrupt, and everything that will do is to increase the cost of poor people in our rural areas,” he said at the meeting.

HB334, which Sanchez and four other legislators have sponsored, is waiting for a hearing at the House Rural Development, Land Grants and Cultural Affairs Committee. The committee's schedule for the last week of the session has not yet been published.

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