{"id":11576,"date":"2020-04-13T02:08:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T02:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/?p=11576"},"modified":"2020-04-13T02:08:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T02:08:19","slug":"huge-brush-fire-in-new-mexico-south-of-albuquerque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/?p=11576","title":{"rendered":"Huge Brush Fire in New Mexico South of Albuquerque"},"content":{"rendered":"

We came upon a huge brush fire next to the southbound lanes of I-25 on March 10th, as we were driving home from our SW New Mexico Rockhunting Trip. We started seeing a large column of heavy black smoke a few miles south of the fire location, then saw a digital Highway Department sign that read Brush Fire Ahead, MP 214, which put it a few miles north of Belen…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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the photo above we were just a couple of miles south of the fire, the highway curves in the direction of the smoke just ahead so I knew we were going to pass right by it, so kept my camera in my lap ready to shoot…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and sure enough, as we approached the long bridge that crosses the Rio Grande River and Valley, the fire was located on the north side of the river which is on the far side from us, and burning heavy vegetation and likely tires and other debris under the southbound lane bridge…so police and firefighters had the southbound lanes completely shut down and traffic diverted on the far hillside north of us…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

NM Trip 2020-0310 Huge Brush Fire S of Albuquerque 432<\/a><\/p>\n

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I shot these as we passed by to show the height of the flames…the ground level is at least 25 feet below the surface of the roadbed, and some of those flames were ten to fifteen feet higher than the guardrail, so flames 40 to 50 feet high were coming up off the ground level below…once on the north hillside and out of the way, we pulled over on a wide shoulder where I shot a few photos looking back at the fire in the valley….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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I could have stayed longer but we still had a few hours driving time to get to Tucumcari where we were spending the night and dinner was calling, so we headed on down the road.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We came upon a huge brush fire next to the southbound lanes of I-25 on March 10th, as we were driving home from our SW New Mexico Rockhunting Trip. We started seeing a large column of heavy black smoke a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fires-2020","category-new-mexico-brush-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11594,"href":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11576\/revisions\/11594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jwjphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}