Gail Fire arranges evacuations for the area in Otero County

Action Seven News at four starts. Our weather team pursues dangerous wind conditions across the state. The winds cause potential power outages and dangerous road conditions. This is a video from Albuquerque from a few hours ago. This bubbles dust. Attention of a health warning shortly before noon today. Our Koat Seven Weather team told us that all this wind would come. How the drought conditions make such days worse. But first, Byron, how do things look out there? Ron and Darlene, we kept them up to date through Koat Sieben all day, and we have run down into Albuquerque from these top wind gusts of 68 miles per hour. Nevertheless, this dust tower warning for the U -Bahn area from Albuquerque to 415 warned a little longer. So we go in the right direction. A living look at the city center of our press chamber. You see that there is still a lot of trembling in this wind, but much better visibility out there. And you couldn't see anything from the Crest Cam. And now you can actually see Albuquerque down there in the distance. And yes, you can now see the mountain of our Koat Cam. So improve from where we used to be. At the moment, the winds from this summit are drilling again to 53. Temperature cooler at 54th and this cold front shines through. I still look at wind warnings for a large part of New Mexico until evening. And these gusts of wind are terrible in the entire state, in Ruidoso throughout the state. Get a gust of wind of 76 miles per hour. This is Hurricane Force earlier, currently 66 miles per hour of wind gusts for Roswell and 60 for the Carlsbad area. Numerous dust tower warnings for a large part of New Mexico. And this light browning shade in the center and in the southeast and in the southern part of the state. Very unusual to see how many areas in dust tower to see warnings at the same time. So just don't have a good time to travel. Zero visibility in deming, zero visibility in Alamogordo, currently no visibility in Carlsbad. So terrible view of the streets and many power outages. We will hear in just a little more about Ron and Darlene. There is our front, which is currently in the four corners in northern parts of New Mexico. A few shower out there, not a whole bunch. Some of these evaporate, some of them Virga, which create some improved wind gusts. And we have this winter weather consultation for Southwest San Juan Mountains in Colorado. So let's pursue this wind while we go through the evening. From now on until tonight, the strongest winds from the central and eastern part of the state, I think for grants. Gallup back to the west, Silver City, get down the winds, especially when we come to bed around 10:00 a.m. And when we go to the night, all parts of New Mexico will see much less wind, they won't disappear, but the winds will calm down in just a little. The chief meteorologist Joe Diaz will tell us why the drought conditions make these wind events so much worse. But first we return to Ron. Darlene Byron. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. Here is a quick look at the NM Roads card. At the moment we are working on learning about large closures. The Interstate 25 was reopened less than an hour ago between Albuquerque and Santa Fe. It was closed out there due to low visibility. Try keeping away from the streets as much as possible. We will draw your attention to dangerous traffic conditions in the air and online and in the south of New Mexico the interstate from Las Cruces to the state border were closed earlier. Here is a photo near Las Cruces. Before this closure. Visibility of all the dust out there. And this photo also shows I-10 after this closure has been implemented. Not so much dust in this photo, but you can see where this dust blocks the highway near the upper right corner in the north of New Mexico. PNM is considering completing a public security in the East Mountains and Las Vegas because of the strong winds. These degrees should try to reduce the risk of forest fire and the extreme weather. PNM asks customers to prepare themselves by being ready. This kit should contain water, food, flashlights and medication. They also say that if the failure takes place, they communicate directly with customers. Here is a look at the PNM failure card. Thousands of customers are affected. At the moment, more than 25 failures are in force. In the shaded area east of Albuquerque, you can monitor a possible shutdown at this moment that PNM site shows that you have not made this decision, and we are now continuing our weather team reporting with the boss meteorologist Joe Diaz. And Joe, why do we see so much dust and how can people stay in safety? Yes, we looked at this yesterday, Darlene, and we talked about that we were in this historic drought, this youngest drought in the past four months, 121 days for Albuquerque, no significant rain or snow. The last time we had that before Thanksgiving. Since then it has been practically bone dry. What has been happening in the past four months has dried up the conditions on the surface. And so we have a lot of loose dirt over it. So the wind blows. It can easily absorb this floor, blow it around and also cause erosion. But strong winds can create these very dangerous dust conditions. In this case, I come to work with 130 today. It was as bad as I ever seen it. Widespread over the U -Bahn area of ​​Albuquerque. This was just a terrible time. Here is the deal. If you are on the road and like this zero visibility, do not stay on the street, go off the street and put your emergency brake. Pull off the street, switch on, switch off the lights, including the brake lights and wear seat belts and wait for the dust to settle. Because as Byron showed them, it is only a widespread dust everywhere. And you can see it there. We have this dust warning up to 415. But young, I tell you something, these dust tower warnings are in force in a wide range of the state. It will take a few more hours to settle. But improve the conditions before us. We show you that Byron Morton rises. Joe. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. And our team reporting is now continued with Alyssa Munoz. She joins live from Albuquerque. Alyssa, what have you seen in this part of the U -Bahn so far? Hey, Darlene. Ron. Yes, it is still very windy out here. We are from Corrales Road compared to this apartment complex. Now take a look here next to me. This is one of the trees that were knocked down by this wind. Now we have seen many of them in the U -Bahn. We also saw how crews work and tried to fix these problems. Now take a look at some of this video that we have here. The crews take up another tree that fell across the street in the northeast of Albuquerque. PNM was also seen how a power failure in a neighborhood was repaired directly in front of San Pedro in the constitution. Now we know that officials like Fire Crews help and in standby companies if something else happens. Now, while we woke up or have come across the U -Bahn, we have seen some street lights that have also been published. So make sure that the drivers appear out there. But we will continue to look around and see how much was influenced by this dust tower. REPORTING. I am Melissa Munoz, Koat Action Seven messages. Alyssa, thank you. And PNM also tells the customer that they are prepared for failures. Additional crews are available to tackle potential problems and say that they are also prepared. So make sure that you have a failure kit, including a few bottles of water, flashlights, additional batteries and possibly a battery -operated radio. Here are some other things you can do. Few things you can do to be prepared are one. Update your contact information. Make sure we have the most precise way to reach you. In second place you are pending with these updated contact information for failure warnings so that you can receive warnings if a power failure takes place at your home. And also for updates. To register for warnings, text, hashtag reg up to 787 66. PNM also says that it monitors the fire risk in East Mountains and Las Vegas. Managers with the company say that they consider public security to prevent a fire. If you do that, you can communicate directly with all the customers concerned. In addition, Albuquerque alerts fixed waste department everyone who does not collect any container overturned by wind. So make sure you pick them up. Maybe you will help your neighbors. The crews will also not absorb overcrowded trash cans. A few hours ago, the department also announced that they are pausing at the landfill in Cerro Colorado. Because of this weather. Our Koat Seven Weather team will pursue the strong winds when it moves consistently. The state will go out

Fire causes evacuations for the area in Otero County

The fire currently has 100 hectares

Updated: 10:24 p.m. Mdt March 18, 2025

An area in Otero County is evacuated when fire service agencies react to a vegetation fire in southern New Mexico. The evacuations are underway for the residents north of the US Highway 82 between the Mile Markers 31 and 33. This area is located near Mayhill, east of Cloudcroft. The Cloudcroft Fire Department said that its community was not affected by the flames. The fire is estimated on a size of about 100 acres. You can download it here.

Otero County, Nm –

An area in Otero County is evacuated when fire service agencies react to a vegetation fire in southern New Mexico.

The evacuations are underway for the residents north of the US Highway 82 between the mileage markings 31 and 33. This area is located near Mayhill east of Cloudcroft.

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The US Forest Service and the fire fighting from Otero County react. The Cloudcroft Fire Department said that its community was not affected by the flames.

The fire is estimated on a size of about 100 acres.

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