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Comments on: Las Conchas Wildfire https://whynow.dumka.us/2011/06/27/las-conchas-wildfire/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:18:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2011/06/27/las-conchas-wildfire/comment-page-1/#comment-56932 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:18:57 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=21358#comment-56932 Because of the 2000 wildfire LANL has really beefed up fire protection, and they have enough fire-proofing foam on site to cover everything, including their concrete bunkers.

The local county has built multiple water tanks since 2000, including a huge one that is dedicated to the fire hydrants because of problems during the Cerro Grande fire.

The local officials looked at Arizona and Texas and decided it was a matter of when, not if.

They suspect a downed power line near the town of Las Conchas as the cause. Based on local occurrences, I know that drought can suck all of the moisture out of the poles and make them brittle.

]]> By: Badtux https://whynow.dumka.us/2011/06/27/las-conchas-wildfire/comment-page-1/#comment-56927 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:35:47 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=21358#comment-56927 Eeep. Hopefully LANL is somewhat fireproofed by the large free-fire zones bulldozed on all sides of it, because there’s definitely buildings there where if they caught on fire, you’d have lots of folks glowin’ in the dark…

– Badtux the Not-so-glowing Penguin

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